Senator visits manufacturing sites of OAO Horizont
MINSK, 13 January (BelTA) – Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova visited manufacturing sites of OAO Managing Company of the Holding Company Horizont on 13 January, BelTA has learned.
The key purpose of the visit was to evaluate prospects of Horizont's developing the territories located within limits of Kuibysheva Street, Masherova Avenue, Krasnaya Street, and Kiseleva Street, including possible applications for and the reconstruction of vacant buildings and structures. The relevant instructions were issued by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko as he visited Horizont on 5 January.
Natalya Kochanova noted it is necessary to effectively use every square meter of the company's territory for the sake of setting up new manufacturing divisions in order to provide people with jobs and for the enterprises to benefit the state. The possibility of using the territory for setting up R&D facilities, an education center, for the development of manufacturing based on new and high technologies, for the expansion of healthcare services for the general public is under consideration. This territory should be used for the benefit of the state and residents of the country, the senator noted. The Industry Ministry, the Minsk city administration, and the potential of the scientific community – the State Science and Technology Committee and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus – will be actively involved in this work.