Yuras Belenki: We Have Legal Framework Of Independent State

How the “deputies of independence” ruined the Kremlin’s game.

On August 25, 1991, an extraordinary session of the Supreme Council of Belarus recognized the Declaration on the sovereignty of our country as a constitutional law.

The Supreme Council adopted this declaration a year earlier, but it acquired the force of law in 1991, three days after the failure of the coup in Moscow, the website of the Belsat television channel writes.

“On the day when the Emergency Committee came crashing down, there was euphoria in the square, everyone hugged, and only Pazniak stood there with a tense face. He said, guys, history gave us three days, if we solve the issue of independence in these three days, we will be independent, if not, then no,” recalls deputy of the Supreme Council of the XII convocation Yuras Belenki.

The very next day, Yuras Belenki emphasizes, Russia expressed its intention to prevent the independence of the former republics.

In Ukraine, where the Verkhovna Rada adopted a similar decision on August 24, this day is celebrated as the Independence Day. In Belarus, this date is not officially celebrated, but today's Belarusians are mostly positive about the independence of our country.

“Everything that is done is for the better, so it was not in vain that they adopted resolutions.”

“I felt better in the Union. - Why? “Because there is a mess and corruption everywhere.”

“Well, we are independent people, we love our Belarus and want to live in it.”

“We are proud that Belarus is independent.”

“No, not really, there is a very big economic dependence on Russia,” Minsk residents say.

Those deputies who were in the minority in the Supreme Council of the BSSR of the twelfth convocation, and those cultural figures who supported the movement towards independence, managed and could lay the foundation of a sovereign Belarusian state.

“We have the legal framework of an independent state, we have international law that protects us, and we have certain opportunities to realize our Belarusian goals, despite the Moscow pressure,” notes Yuras Belenki.

If it hadn’t been for August 25, 1991, Belarus would have remained with the same rights as part of Russia as Tatarstan or Chechnya, the politician emphasizes.