MINSK - Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko has put off his address to the National Assembly from April 19 to a later date and ordered additional editing to the draft.
Lukashenko rejected the draft, prepared by state agencies, and ordered additional editing, earlier reports said.
Lukashenko wants individual sections, including those dealing with the privatization of state assets and the country’s foreign-policy course, to be re-written, the presidential administration said.
The president wants the final edition to say that "an overly liberal approach to the privatization of state property is impermissible, all-out privatization is unacceptable, and the interests of ordinary employees and all ordinary citizens during the privatization should be guaranteed fully," the administration said.
"Lukashenko also rejects an excessively rigorous reaction to problems emerging in the country’s relations with its partners," it said.
