Transcripts For BELARUSTV 20240703

To 7, during the day it will only be from 4 in the northeast to 12 in the southwest of the republic, the cold environment will continue at the beginning of next week, with possible frosts from zero to 3. My colleagues will have more information at 15 00. With this i say goodbye to you, all the best and have a nice weekend. Good evening, this is the economic environment in belarus, one of the satellite tv channel belarus 24. In belarus, a forecast of Socioeconomic Development for the year 24 has been approved. The decree was signed by the president. The main figures are the growth of Gross Domestic Product by 3. 8 . Almost four investments. Export. An increase in income of 3. 2 with inflation not exceeding six. Belarus and russia can reach 55 billion dollars in trade turnover at the end of the current year. This was announced by the head of the belarusian and Russian Federation dmitry krutoy. Growth is expected due to the transport and construction industries, as well as it. Two Belarusian Enterprises are in the forbes ranking of the 50 largest Foreign Companies in russia. Belaz holding and santa group took thirtyeighth and thirtyninth places. Criterion is revenue for the previous year. Global trade volumes fell 3. 2 in july compared with the same period last year, the sharpest fall since august 2020. The world bank reduced gdp growth for the countries of east asia and the pacific region, including china, to 104. 5 next year. These are the worst prospects in half a century. For the first time in 30 years, japan may lose its status as the secondlargest shareholder of the International Monetary fund. Now. The top largest holders look like this usa 17. 5 . Japan 6. 5 and china about the same. The share of the euro in International Payments through swift fell to a historical low, just above 23 . In august, the european currency lost 1. 2 points. Volume of urgent ruble deposits in belarus increased over the month by almost 100 million rubles or 1. 4 , amounting to 7. 3 billion rubles as of september 1. Belarus has made impressive progress in achieving the Sustainable Development goals. Almost 80 of obligations have been fulfilled. This was announced at the profile summit of the Un General Assembly. Participation in the plenary segment of the summit in new york was taken by the deputy chairman of the council of the republic, National Coordinator for achieving Sustainable Development goals, Valery Belsky and chairman of the Permanent Commission on International Affairs of national security, sergei rochkov. Lets discuss what the Sustainable Development goals are, why all countries strive to achieve them, and what successes belarus has achieved in this direction with competent experts right now. Today we have experts in our studio who are well versed in achieving Sustainable Development goals. Valery bels. Deputy chairman of the council of the republic of the National Assembly of belarus, National Coordinator for achieving sustainable goals development, doctor of economic sciences, professor. Inna medvedeva, chairman of the national. Batova, head of sectoromics research, institute of economics, academy of sciences of belarus, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor. Dear guests, good evening. Good evening. So, Sustainable Development goals. What are these goals, what do they consist of, and what does the United Nations organization have to do with it . The Un General Assembly adopted the 20 30 agenda, as it is called today. On Sustainable Development goals, what are the goals . Thats 17 goals, 169 tasks, they cover all spheres of life of both humans and the state, that is, from the income of the population to the environment, the conservation of endangered animal species that we have on the territory of the republic of belarus. 252 global indicators that must be tracked, that is, today , Sustainable Development goals, these are the areas that are important for the republic of belarus today, which form the basis of all Program Documents adopted in the republic of belarus. Yes. Well thats what it is goals . Lets list, yes, we asked the director to show on the screen, yes, this is the elimination of poverty, do we really have poverty in belarus . So i would like to comment that, for example, belstat is the coordinator, it seems, of course, like valery. Well, in this case, we are the coordinator for monitoring the implementation of Sustainable Development goals, we have selected indicators, these are 267 indicators, of which 172 indicators correspond to the global level, the remaining indicators are directly related to the National Characteristics of the development of the republic belarus. For example, yeah, today we assessed the progress in achieving the Sustainable Development goals, the first goal is to eradicate poverty. That we have today indicate that we are moving in the right direction. Moreover, we have fulfilled a number of indicators that exist in the International Community long ago unconditionally. And today the level of poverty, which today amounted to 3. 9 in 2022 , is the lowest in the history of observation. For example, to ensure Food Security and it is indeed ensured today and , accordingly, on the Sustainable Development of agriculture, that is, here is the last seminar with the participation of the head of state, where clear tasks were set on how to develop livestock farming, and we can achieve each goal, this is healthcare, this is education, the conservation of wildlife , and we reach the seventeenth goal, where we will talk about the panel of macroeconomic indicators, that is, this is also gdp, this is industrial development, yes, this is foreign direct investment, because the main motto our agenda is 2030, leaving no one behind, that is, not leaving anyone behind. Not all vulnerable segments of the population, these are people with many children, these are people with disabilities, these are pensioners, that is, the indicators for Sustainable Development are selected, they precisely characterize the movement of the states care for these people, but carefully studying the list of these Sustainable Development goals, these 169 tasks , we can come to the conclusion that they are quite noble, there is nothing bad in them, they are aimed at strengthening each state in accordance with, i would say, the essence our social policy, which includes people, social justice, everything for our people, to provide them with every opportunity for development, and you noted that according to many indicators, many goals that are relevant for other countries, we have almost completely achieved them. Valery ivanovich, but we know that they came out at the end of september. Took part in a specialized summit, the summit on Sustainable Development goals, which was held in new york on the basis of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Tell me what questions there they decided what your impressions of this event were and what was discussed on the sidelines . Dmitry tolyevich, well, the summit is being held during the halfterm period designated by the General Assembly to achieve the goal sustainably. That is, we have passed half the way, but during this time progress has been achieved only in 15 of the goals in some areas, in the world, not in belarus in the world, in some areas, on the contrary , there has been regression, including in such sensitive areas as poverty and hunger. In this regard, the secretary general initiated the holding of such a summit in order to receive guarantees from the leaders of the state, it was a fairly representative summit, the second, well, lets say, in a coordinated manner to take on additional obligations to support the goals of Sustainable Development in the global sense, that is, such decisions that were made there and the declaration of the political summit , they aim at transforming the Global Financial system in order to reduce inequality between the global south and the global north, that is , they even stated the need to form the new bretten woods system, to receive guarantees for increasing donor assistance to developing countries and countries with a low level of development, and other issues that affect most of the goals, as for belarus, we, of course, the format of the summit that was held, it did not allow us to present in detail the successes of our country, we only limited ourselves to the most sensitive moments, in particular we talked about the progress that has been achieved in this in belarus. In belarus yes, we talked about that almost 80 of the goals that we set for ourselves, 80 of the goals, were fulfilled, yes, that is, we are generally an exemplary state, probably, and if there werent some nuances, we discussed this with another viktorov the day before, then i think that we should be country number one, or at least in the top five , but we will still get to the progress, to the achievements of belarus for Sustainable Development, we will have a question, Valery Ivanovich, what is being discussed on the sidelines . There is information that the belarusian side has declared its protest, here you personally, and yes, informed individual officials of the United Nations about the fact that undesirable elements , i would say, persons who were involved in extremist terrorist activities, were on the site of the Un General Assembly, as far as this is true, it is absolutely true, dmitry avitolyevich, well, first of all, i would say that we succeeded. Speak at one, at the prestigious first round table, and those two issues that we emphasized attention, which for us constitute such, are problematic for us, they are problems , are problematic for the whole world , at least 20 speakers focused on these things, this is the use of unilateral coercive measures, what we are faced with, this interferes, and the head states emphasized the importance of restrained yes, the second question is absolutely correct this is, of course , ensuring peace, and if the goals of Sustainable Development are not separable in their unity, if we look at them carefully, then the sixteenth goal we will find is just peace. Valery ivanovich, extremists at the meeting, that means, yes, that means we noted that, to our surprise, certain people who. We have been convicted by our court, well, our fugitives, yes, yes, on grounds of extremism, yeah, and terrorist activities, other illegal activities, were present at the meeting, meetings, and were accredited to the un, so of course, we used those meetings, which were carried out by our delegation, there were a number of them, they expressed their dissatisfaction, i would even say protest, the use of the un site for, well, for popularization of these phenomena, no, well, the question arises, you see, as far as i know, official representatives of countries are accredited at such events, yes, on what basis can extremists be there, the big question is, i think that the secretariat of the United Nations needs to figure it out and address close attention, absolutely right, well, different assessments are given on this matter, including comments we heard that these are National Delegations who are declaring individuals, they have the right to any representatives, but the head of state has repeatedly said that the un should act as a neutral and independent structure to a certain extent, a role that should be increased, therefore the un secretary should have his own opinion on this issue, but accredit. People who, well, its unacceptable, who support extremist activities, but this is unacceptable, who are condemned, because those issues that, that is, we noted that the situation is, well, critical, among other things, we were accused of creating such a migration crisis, but excuse me, for 2 years, for many years, belarus has spent more money in order to ensure order in. There is a direct violation, we have stated this, this creates certain problems for us, leading to disaster, moreover, we have stated about what our and some neighboring states openly support today. The formation of a terrorist orientation, financing and their special training, this cannot but worry us, therefore the relevant un structures that are involved specialize in assessment of such trends, were informed on our behalf with a request to Pay Attention and, uh, take part in the investigation of such incidents, and i want to say that we have met understanding, we have agreements to expand interaction and i hope that this will somewhat reduce the tension in our the perimeter of our borders. But, since you recalled the position of the head of state, it should be noted that the achievement of Sustainable Development goals is actively supported by our president , while the head of state emphasizes that Sustainable Development of any country is impossible without peace and security. This thesis, understandable to every belarusian, is in fact not shared by all participants in international relations, that is , global Sustainable Development and what belarus calls on the World Community for in our next story, please. The new agenda of the 17 un Sustainable Development goals was announced at the 2015 summit in new york, then the head of the belarusian state presented belarus position for the future. Our president made a clear emphasis Sustainable Development of any country impossible without peace and security. Even then , the head of state called on the countries for dialogue. Quote if you do not stop the bloodshed, the fratricidal massacre in europe and allow the escalation of the conflict, the entire civilized world will be hot. These words turned out to be prophetic; numerous crises in recent years have dealt a serious blow to efforts aimed at implementing the sdgs. Now they turn to Alexander Lukashenko for advice and help. Without a sharp increase in commitment, solidarity and transformative action, we will miss the core goals of the agenda for a period of. 2030 to end poverty, reduce inequality, protect the environment, and count on your support to deliver the breakthroughs our world desperately needs. In response to the letter from the head of the un, our president indicates specific areas of action for the organization that can reverse the dangerous situation. A serious challenge to the common cause, the achievement of Sustainable Development goals. Are unilateral coercive measures or sanctions. These voluntaristic and contrary to International Law actions, limited with their interests and prejudices , groups of western states directly destroy progress in achieving the sdgs. How courageous, for example, is it to eliminate poverty and hunger, if sanctions undermine global Food Security, therefore increasing the scale of poverty and hunger to entire regions, even continents, sanctions have become weapons, they are capable of killing. Peace and Sustainable Development are inseparable concepts; from year to year belarus actively calls on all states for a comprehensive dialogue on security in order to form the foundations building a new, fair, world order. Each state is a brick in the construction of a Global Sustainable building called world order. Everyone must begin its construction with themselves. And belarus became. A bright, clear example. Peoples do not understand how the ideology of a Global International project of Sustainable Development can be compatible with such achievements of our time as unprecedented famine, epidemics, moral degradation, rampant abnormal values; this has never happened in world history. It is difficult to call such a development as well as the fact that the world spends trillions of dollars on killing people and ruining states, and not on creation, at the center of the decisions we make, to preserve peace, creation for the benefit of the future of belarus, social justice, these are our democratic values, true values, i will say more, this is the basis of our national idea, which has been clearly defined by the present time. Belarus confidently continues largescale work in achieving Sustainable Development goals. Behind all the objectives and indicators is the most important thing the result, and its main benefit. A person and a citizen, what we talked about inna viktorovna, but dear experts, and if we talk about the specific success of belarus in achieving Sustainable Development goals, we have something to be proud of, and how our achievements are assessed by the International Community, our International Partners , naturally, we have a lot to do. This is actually true, because as Valery Ivanovich already said, we assessed the implementation of the Sustainable Development goals and their achievement, about 80 of the indicators indicate progress in the movement, and that there are goals , which almost one hundred percent coverage, this is still the same first goal, this is poverty, the fifth goal is gender, of course, and today we are proud of what we have today. This is confirmed by international ratings, we are thirtysecond in this rating, this is a very high figure, thirtysecond out of im not mistaken, but in my opinion these are 170 countries, this is serious, this is a really serious breakthrough, our colleagues are always surprised how women we have , make decisions, lead, they are represented. Belarus shows in all indicators for all purposes of the movement. We do not have no goal with less than 60 progress. And these are objective things that are confirmed, well, not just by statistical information, they are calculated according to foreign methodology. Nikolaevna, what a success you are. You can highlight belarus in this context in the implementation of Sustainable Development goals, maybe environmental ones in the implementation of Sustainable Development goals, speaking about environmental goals, belarus can undoubtedly be considered one of the leaders, that it has clean air, clean water, biodiversity, and of course, with we should talk about such a goal as the eleventh goal, yes, the eleventh, twelfth is innovation, industrialization and modernization of our economy, we should talk about the introduction of a circular economy , then what. We are now moving towards the rational use of secondary Material Resources, yes , moreover, the latest changes in legislation , which have now been introduced by the house of representatives into the law on waste management, and belarus is, we must probably talk about this, is the first country where the disposal of secondary Material Resources will be prohibited at the legislative level, we were already the leader of such an environmental agenda in the cis countries, and now at the legislative level we are the only and first country in the countries of the commonwealth of an independent state, this is a breakthrough that allows us to act very competently, i must say that we not only do this at this legislative level, moreover, for example, the latest law is adopted with a time lag of 6 months, but it comes into force in february twenty fourth year, for what . So that all interested parties, government bodies, banks and enterprises, receive temporary time to prepare, develop specific measures and implement this legislation. Inna viktorovna, how do our foreign colleagues evaluate our achievements, our progress in achieving the Sustainable Development goals, we know that a delegation came to you, and our partners who oversee the Sustainable Development goals, we learned from the press that, well, they are like this they were pleasantly shocked, they were surprised at the level achievements of our country for the purposes of Sustainable Development, indeed the regional director. On the goals of Sustainable Development, belstat also visited and we showed our experience, our experience, by the way, is advanced in the world, in world practice, and belarus, when it takes on obligations and when the head of state says that we will be committed to the Sustainable Development goals, we are really moving in this direction, we presented an assessment, not all countries, by the way, assess progress, and we presented this assessment and the first thing is that it she said. This is the first, second, you need to raise the level, that is, take on increased obligations, since you have exceeded Many International or global indicators. Even greater improvement of the internal environment, and the lives of citizens directly, so do we need increased obligations . You know, there are indicators by which we can safely do this absolutely, and Valery Ivanovich and i have already discussed this, in principle we are thinking about really moving forward, because for us a number of indicators today are not relevant, because we have fulfilled and exceeded, and today we no longer. Use global indicators, because they are not typical for us, but you must agree that we are carrying out this work, we are not doing it for the sake of indicators, not for show, we we do this for the wellbeing of our people, for the prosperity of our native belarus. Valery ivanovich, tell me, here you are, as the National Coordinator of the Sustainable Development goals in belarus, right, tell me, how is this work structured, what is this architecture . Development, what elements does it include, how is it organized in the country . Well, first of all, i must say, this is the idea that you have already suggested to tv viewers, that for belarus , the Sustainable Development goals for belarus are essentially organic, yeah, well, if there had not been a 2015 summit, we would not have been improving our situations, would not deal with waste or would not improve wellbeing and would not ensure the sustainability of the functioning of cities there, well, we would do this as laid down in our Program Strategic documents, of course, we are interested in how we we look different compared to others, and of course, we can position ourselves in a good sense and advertise, in order to do this systematically, of course, the work is coordinated, for this purpose a council for Sustainable Development was created, and the council unites 38 government bodies , local authorities selfgovernment, that is, this is a broad representation, regional, sectoral , public organizations, executive committees, executive committees, yes, all, one way or another, five sectoral groups, which means that they deal with issues of economics, social development, education, summing up, what is most important is that the level of representation in the council for Sustainable Development is very high, because as a rule, these are deputies, managers, although they often take part in the work of the council and the heads of government bodies themselves are one of the most active participants in this work, therefore , but there is still a place for youth ambassadors, there is a place for youth ambassadors, a parliamentary group, a partner group, that is, it is very broad. Representation, well, that is, the system is quite hierarchical, yes, that is, ideas and proposals are collected from below, correctly, according to the methodology , clarifications of what we will collect, how much, but we have, dmitry anich, a very important point, we are developing a National Strategy for Sustainable Development, the National Strategy is, until the thirtyfifth year has already been developed, work is now being organized to develop the next one, this is the basis of the National Strategy, it will then unfold into a fiveyear program. Yes, yes, that is, the National Strategy is incorporated into our planning and forecasting system, then there is also a very important aspect here, here is Valery Ivanovich, smoothly moving from this thesis that you just mentioned, nadezhda nikolaevna, are the Sustainable Development goals taken into account in the strategic and Program Documents of our country, and how, they are not only. Incorporated there. Moreover, all of our fiveyear state sectoral programs for Socioeconomic Development contain a separate section and separate specific target indicators for the implementation of the program corresponding to the indicators of Sustainable Development goals. Development, approved by our statistical committee, that is, one of the results of the implementation of our program, in addition to our usual industry indicators, are specific indicators of Sustainable Development, if this is a state program for the protection of the environment, natural. This will be sdg15, yes, these are all those goals , sdg13, that is, each goal is implemented in a specific program, these are already key indicators, all our ministers are already clearly monitoring and understand, this allows, moreover, we are now moving to the level localization of Sustainable Development goals, for which these are ours , and regional executive committees, District Executive committees, when adopting their fiveyear programs, also understand and evaluate the contribution they make. Achieving national Sustainable Development goals is very important. We have a council on Sustainable Development goals in each region. Our leaders, of course, are the mogilev region, the mogilev regional executive committee. And we, together with our regions, the city of minsk, selected indicators for monitoring target indicators Sustainable Development at the local level , that is, at the regional level, and today we are creating a National Platform for tracking Sustainable Development goals by region, that is, we have gone down, it is the regional executive committees that work with us, and we want us to go further to the District Executive committees, they are also not an empty phrase for them, they are also involved in this work, we know about the platform, if you allow us about its advantages, well talk a little later, because well, we need to talk in more detail, inna viktorovna is being modest, ill say that this for the first time in the world, takin, we are the first, colleagues, i propose that to summarize the block of questions dedicated to our achievements, we need to put such a point that is tangible for our respected tv viewers or. I dont know, maybe even an exclamation point, and i would like to note that at the end of the twentysecond year, belarus took sixtieth place in the Human Development index and continues to be in the category of countries with a very high level of Human Development; in the ranking of Sustainable Development goals, belarus also maintains a high position, it is thirtyfourth out of 163 states, and in more detail about the results of belarus towards achieving sustainable goals. Belarus is one of the World Leaders in achieving Sustainable Development goals, almost 80 of obligations have been fulfilled. Now lets use specific examples to understand what relates to tsur and where we have really succeeded. Lets start with the key one Food Security. Our country not only provides itself with food, but successfully sells it on world markets. We have enough vegetables and potatoes, but meat, milk, we produce much more sugar and butter than we ourselves need, just think about it, domestic producers produce more than 38 types of cheese, over a thousand types of Meat Products and more than one and a half types of milk. Quality medicine is accessible to everyone. Healthcare has always been a priority for our state. Last year alone, almost 30 medical facilities were put into operation. Interdistrict centers are provided with everything necessary; diagnostics and treatment there are no worse than in the capital. Position in the ranking of the most comfortable for motherhood the country is among the top 50 countries, the behavior of pregnancy and the organization of childbirth, and our doctors were the first in europe to reduce the transmission of hiv from mother to baby, the infant mortality rate is the lowest among the cis countries. The spiritual image of the entire nation is formed by the School Student community. Every belarusian has the right to receive free education. Its quality is guaranteed. In every corner of the country, we are in thirtysecond place in the education index and this is the best result among the cis countries. Our Adult Literacy rate is one of the highest in the world. The state spares no expense on education. The share of expenses for it is about 5 of gdp. Over the past 3 years alone, 30 new kindergartens and 14 schools have been built in the country. According to the un, belarus is among the top 20 countries in terms of the populations access to clean water. Yes, we were lucky to be born in the land of rivers. Lakes, but we not only value our natural wealth, but also work on our own comfort; over the past 2 years alone, about 350 iron removal stations have been built in the country. 96. 9 belarusians use highquality drinking water, by 2025 this figure will be increased to 100. Covid19 has destroyed billions of lives , jeopardized the World Economy, thanks to wise policies, belarusians did not stop production and continued to work, and even now. Despite unprecedented sanctions, our economy is growing , enterprises are provided with orders, commercial products, by the end of the year they plan to produce more than 30 billion rubles, exports are close to 7 billion dollars, decent wages, safe and comfortable working conditions under the close attention of the federation of trade unions of belarus. According to all indicators that characterize social inequality, belarus is one of the most prosperous countries. We have no oligarchs; all National Wealth belongs to us. The state protects the interests of ordinary citizens and supports those who are in difficult life situations. This year, 27. 2 billion rubles have been allocated for the social sphere. Pensions and benefits are being recalculated, comfortable conditions are being created for those who have Health Problems and who cannot service. Using the best practices of other countries, belarus is following its own unique path; we have something to be proud of. Global goals, of course, resonate with us, ordinary belarusians, as we all want. To simply exist, and to live in comfort, and most importantly, peace. Well, you see, we have something to be proud of, of course, all the achievements in this capacious story. Looking at our results, but pride takes over, pride takes over, its nice to feel like a belarusian, pride in the country, inna viktorovna, but returning to the issue of regional platform on Sustainable Development goals, well , Valery Ivanovich noted that this is such an innovation, not about the regional, world level, what kind of platform is this and what advantages, what opportunities does it open for us . Absolutely right, we were the first to lower the National Platform for monitoring indicators of Sustainable Development goals to the regional level , today we have already selected indicators by region, and some of the indicators correspond to the national list, because we want to be able to compare these indicators. But some indicators tell about the specific features of the region itself, and the regions themselves proposed these indicators. Yes. What will be possible to see how each region is developing in comparison, who is faster, who is slower, who has what salary, who has what grp, that is, in principle, we will even sooner be able to make a ranking of regions based on the indicators that we have selected. This is a very good analytical tool for both science and for our ministry and other Government Agencies that will make decisions on the development of specific regions, especially moreover, we have an order, which is one of the priorities of our fiveyear plan, this is reducing the differentiation of regions, and it is this platform that will provide the opportunity to work, absolutely right, well, this is wonderful, listen, achievements, there are innovative platforms, well, too much. We are in the implementation of Sustainable Development goals , but dear experts, i propose to recall the thesis of the head of state, which he emphasized in his response to the un secretary general, sanctions, they were called a deterrent that prevents, which hinders progress in achieving global Sustainable Development goals at the global level. Valery ivanovich, well, we understand that sanctions have a negative impact on the implementation of the sdgs, but could you explain to us how, and why, the unfair pressure of sanctions, which is exerted not only on belarus, but on many other countries in the world , this is such , you know, such a political cudgel, this unfair sanctions pressure, how, through what mechanisms and what influence. I repeat, i will say that about twenty speakers at the un podium, yeah, spoke about the negative impact of sanctions, although during the preparation of the final document , this issue was not given enough attention until it was included, that is, this is not a final discussion, so the position of belarus is official. That we will also express our proposals for its clarification upon final consideration. Firstly, sanctions against belarus and our partners, our allies, affected the achievement of Sustainable Development goals in our country. So, that is, well, we remember, subsidence the gdp of National Pressure last year, it is being recouped this year, uh, there is a recovery growth, because contacts are being established, new economic ties. Mass, which means that sanctions affected approximately 16 billion of ours, our traditional exports, that is, this is a lot, so when individual heads of state and the government who spoke and said we support the sdgs, we allocate 400 million there for the implementation of this agenda , i think, my god, 16 billion belarusian you. Give it back to us, which was taken away, to the belarusian people, who are still, still reaping the fruits, the negative fruits of the Second World War , the great patriotic war, chernobyl, 200 billion dollars, damage, all this, of course, violated our plans, no one will return anything to us , but we are great, we ourselves reoriented, yes, but the second aspect is very important, belarus is important, a player in. About the food market and the fertilizer market , yes, therefore, supplying every fifth share of potassium to the world market means, but it sounds like joke, right . They say let us, therefore, ensure Food Security in the world, let us eliminate hunger in the world, they immediately block the supply of belarusian rut fertilizers, without which a high harvest in the world, well, it is not easy to obtain, it is impossible, the other side of the medals, i will add a little , yes, they are blocking supplies, which means there will be hunger in the world, and rising food prices, which means inflation, and that means impoverishment, this is the result, this is the result of what sanctions have led to at the international level, but this is a conscious this is the strategy, and either its, well, no, theres no foresight, no, foreseeing the decisions that are made in terms of sanctions, or it s done on purpose, well, their goals are clear, but the boomerang is still there, calculated or not, thats different question, i think that no one is probably assessing in detail the strategic consequences there, even for those countries that impose sanctions, there is certainly a certain lobbying behind this, that is, canada, for example, benefited significantly from the rise in prices for potassium fertilizers, this is direct beneficiary of the imposition on our stake ; moreover, this means that a certain hypocrisy is manifesting itself. In what is happening at the un podium, the head of the government of this country, mr. Trudeau, speaks, he is positioned as a committed member of the group, adherents of the Sustainable Development goals, and, of course, that means with a seal, with some guarantees, promises, he says about what he will do to achieve the goal of Sustainable Development, we are all immersed in this agenda, and i am also sitting. It just becomes somehow inconvenient because including for him, uh, my god, uh, that means 25, according to some estimates, perhaps not yet fully confirmed, canada provided 25 of Greenhouse Gas emissions, in connection with the fires that occurred in this territory, this is his direct area of ​​responsibility and contribution to achieving the goals of Sustainable Development, ensure the fight against fires on your territory, now. We are seeing a situation where the agenda of Sustainable Development goals is not used by honest contractors, first of all, not even in the political plane, in the economic plane, in competition, when organizations are forced out of the market, which may not be sufficiently informed about the measures that are being taken to ensure sustainable objectives in the field. Such an agenda veils the goals of imposing values ​​alien to us, for example, through the gender equality agenda, which means we, we know this well, this means we are being told that we need to be more liberal in identifying a person as a bearer of a certain nontraditional gender, lets say , thats why. I would like to draw attention to these aspects, therefore, perhaps this requires some kind of global assessment and also incorporated into the international dialogue, in order to exclude the situation that we see now in democracy, when democracy is, in fact, such a universal thesis for the start of any conflicts, wars, and the introduction of unilateral forced peace. Nadezhda nikolaevna, we know that you are a specialist in the Green Economy and in the system of Sustainable Development goals a special place is given, and the green direction is also responsible production consumption and conservation of ecosystems and climate and so on. Our country has adopted a National Action plan for the development of a Green Economy until 2025. Taking into account the Sustainable Development goals, how do you assess its implementation, is there a need to push somewhere, are there problems, what are they . The National Action plan for the development of a Green Economy is the second document of its kind that has been adopted in our country, and i want to say that monitoring of the implementation of measures is carried out annually of this document, and moreover, the Second National plan now contains 11 priority areas, and which clearly contain a list of specific activities and a wide range, a list, one might say, of those responsible and involved in their implementation, saying, success so far in general is its implementation is assessed as successful, speaking about some specific examples, if we talk about sustainable production, yes, then systematic work is certainly underway in the republic to create a National System using the best available technological methods. Moreover, these methods successfully, the creation of such a Platform Allows Enterprises not to waste time searching for these best methods, but to immediately see the best that can be applied in their field to successfully implement them. And the system of ecolabeling and ecocertification is actively developing. But talking, for example, about the success of electric transport probably makes no sense at all, because every citizen of our country sees this clearly on the roads of our cities. In the last issue we discussed the electrician. In the city of minsk 50 of passenger traffic with taking into account the metropolitan area, this is electric transport; in the country as a whole, taking into account Regional Centers, this figure is already about 30 . But lets not forget that in 2017 we had 40 units of electric vehicles throughout the country, this is the progress that, yes, and today we all ride electric buses and are not even surprised, yes, that they run on green fuel. Therefore, to speak about absolutely every direction of organic production is also systematically developing, to talk about resourceefficient energysaving technologies, our enterprises are systematically, not only are they being systematically implemented, today you are actively turning to the external circuit, in may of the twentythird year competitions were announced, such a competition as green eurasia, i must say that our enterprise belneftim and their projects are green malanka network took first place. In the lowcarbon transport category, and at the same time this enterprise overtook such giants as Russian Railways and other large yaas enterprises, and the obrez waste Processing Plant entered the top three of the best enterprises in the category of effective waste management, this is the best indicator in the eac. As promised, industrialization, innovation and infrastructure, how these categories can improve peoples lives in practice, Alexey Kondratenko stopped by the city of stolptsy to tell. About the integrated development of the city through the prism of the ninth goal of Sustainable Development a municipal view from the master of interesting stories, lets see, the city that is dear to me and which is forgotten, im taking off my strength, kolosovsky flavor is just one of the business cards columns, the city has a lot of them, this is a wellmaintained street. Courtyards, developed industry, cozy new buildings, and recently a modern cinema was opened. Innovations in education are already at the start, primary School Students at stoltsovskaya school no. 4, which was opened just a couple of years ago, know best the four letters in the english alphabet s, em, but at the same time natural sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics develop children comprehensively creative. For me , the most interesting thing here is to design, you need to go in, program it, then it will go. In general, robotic design, that is, this is also a kind of innovation, the guys come here , they are very interested in assembling various models, there are a lot of models, we went to minsk for a robotics competition, which is called the road to the future, and we won for 2 years in a row. The apple is of good quality , we process 45 tons of it per day, the harvesting and processing season for apples is met with roundtheclock work, however, for the stolptsovsky branch of the gorodeya sugar plant, this is the usual mode, except for juices, nectars, canned vegetables, fruit. Additives for the dairy industry of belarus are produced here, modernization and readiness to offer new products to the market is one of the factors for the confident development of the enterprise, a line has also been developed for baby food, additives, these products are also in demand by our dairymen, for this year we can say that we have developed about 40 recipes for fruit fillers only. The evolution of the columns, and the city is 430 years old, under a sailing boat is moving along its channel, from a centuriesold trading place and agricultural region to a compact, cozy Regional Center with developed industry, the activity of a branch of the minsk motor plant has dominated for the last 30 years, now plans are made for a new cityforming enterprise. Of course, in recent history we have been faced with a new task how to develop further, through what . And we began to think that it was still paramount. To attract new investment projects here. Our next idea is the further development of the industrial cluster, for which we created a site of 400 hectares area, Industrial Park columns, lets call it that, in the future , where all the Necessary Communications are connected, in terms of their capacity , they correspond to the most such volumetric production, and we believe that the arrival of new enterprises here, like the branch of the minsk motor plant, of course, could would give us a new round in development, but an interesting look, you will agree, but when preparing for the transfer, inna viktorovna, we read the foreign press, including, and you know, this is what caught my eye, the statement of analysts, and foreign ones, and more than one oh volume, that the coronavirus associated economic restrictions in the world for several years, they have greatly slowed down world and global progress in achieving Sustainable Development goals, but belarus has largely managed to avoid this, due to which, how, this is an absolutely correct statement, when everyone went into lockdown, the decision made by the head of state that we continue to work, protect ourselves, but continue to work, had its effect, as a result, belarus practically in 2020, the gdp rate was almost at the level last year, when other countries significantly reduced their gdp, belarus remained almost at the same level, but those indicators that directly depended on lockdowns, for example, unemployment or poverty, yes, when people were kicked out of work, when people received less wages wages in belarus also decreased, that is, both unemployment and poverty decreased in 2020, and when the time came for the economies of other countries to recover, we were completely ready to sell our goods, yeah, that is fundamentally, it was a time, of course, of a certain restructuring, but nevertheless, it was a time to prepare to come out on time with our goods, well, plus, it is clear that Service Sectors such as tourism, such as culture, of course, and such as hotel accommodation, this is understandable, but today they have recovered, and they have recovered very strongly, well, thats just what i mean, that s how wise the decisions were made, you will remember this criticism, and our opponents, that everything is wrong , and now that we we look at the dynamics and sustainable implementation of goals. There is a collapse of development in other countries everywhere, but in belarus there is practically no development, well, here is the evidence for you. Dmitriyvich, i will add to what inna viktorovna said, because now there are studies of the consequences not only for the economy, but also for the health of society, of those decisions made, it turns out, even sanitary from a medical point of view, that the path that was chosen in our country, from this point of view, here he is. Quite rationally, because, as then the head states said that they were locked into apartments, well, in reality, many countries stopped the sector, this is a disaster in economic terms , a disaster, yes, but also, here i would like to remember in the context of what i already said, how many corruption scandals there are erupted on uh, such global, relatively commerce, centered around sales and development. The sale of vaccines , in which top officials of the European Union were involved in these scandals, relatives of someone there and so on, there are questions, there are questions, Valery Ivanovich, but despite obvious, lets return to the goals of Sustainable Development, despite the obvious achievements of our country in implementing these goals, 80 , and by and large they have been implemented, despite the achievement. Are there any difficulties on a national scale, are there any problematic aspects in achieving the Sustainable Development goals that need to be worked on, and maybe the goals themselves need updating, clarification and revision, what do you think . Dmitry avitolyevich, well, again the National Aspects and the global aspect, as for the national aspect, there are problems i dont see anything here. I would like to emphasize once again that our country can be presented as a world model, if we talk about some goals, yes, of course, today we can say that they are needed. They need to be revised and updated, primarily in connection with with the digitalization of the World Economy and social life, i could probably say today that this aspect should come to the fore, in addition to those aspects that were discussed at the summit, and this includes financing for developing countries, and well, other aspects , they are known, firstly digitalization we must look at the negative aspects of the use of digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence for for the global agenda. Secondly, we have a sixteenth goal, it touches on issues of peace, justice and so on , effective institutions, effective institutions, which we actually have enough of, what we need to Pay Attention to, well, probably, compliance with our obligations, as a separate goal, by our partners, by our partners, for example, we. Have, and the third and fourth goal is education and health care, on which we still need to add and maximize efforts, well, the thirtieth year has not yet arrived, and the thirtieth year has not yet arrived, but how consonant are they with the meetings held by the head of state, yes, a good question, fundamentally, there is a need to strengthen health care and in education, the head of state has set appropriate tasks, there is a need to work on it, and the head of state signed a decree on forecast parameters for 24. Nadezhda nikolaevna, i cant help but ask you a question about environmental risks, these are the environmental risks, in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development goal, do you see what environmental risks can be predicted . Speaking about environmental risks, of course, i would like to say, loss of biodiversity, collapse of eosystems, extreme weather events , failure of climate policy, well, these are all global, this is biological diversity, but we are talking on the contrary, i am talking about global about Global Environmental risks, why . We cannot talk or talk about them, because in nature everything is interconnected, firstly, and secondly, territorially belarus is located in the Geographical Center of europe, we have borders with five states, and the negative environmental consequences in any of them will have an indirect direct impact. On the environment in the republic of belarus, so we must also take this into account and monitor when talking about environmental risks, of course, we are internal environmental risks, we will talk about an increase, our level of prosperity is growing, the level of consumption is growing, at the same time the level of Household Waste are stored some problems, individual problems with emissions of pollutants, and with discharges of pollutants, moreover, our industrial giants, our industrial enterprises, we must take into account, are potential sources. Of a potential threat to the environment, thats why such attention, yes is given on the side of the state, including economic certification, economic standards, and all emission control, this must also be taken into account, of course, our tv viewers can reproach us, say that these are the goals of Sustainable Development, some global categories, some kind of poverty, Food Security, categories that are, by and large, distant from a specific person, thats specifically. Our tv viewer, please tell me how a person can, well, take part, somehow contribute to the implementation of this or that goal, how the work to inform these citizens is organized, at such an everyday level, every citizen can participate in advertising and promoting a specific goal, ecology, yeah, those same youth ambassadors, they are it is precisely those people who promote the understanding of these goals, no matter what a person does not see, let us allow ourselves into the gdp when we show it there