BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

13/06/2006

President calls for market liberalisation

The Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has called upon the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Information Technology to meet conditions for accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by first liberalising the country's telecoms markets. 'It is necessary to liberalise the communications market and ban cross subsidies for various services in this field', Lukashenko said on Monday, before adding, 'Technical progress in the field of information technology is moving rapidly around the world, and Belarus must not lag behind in this race'.

Source:

http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=13000

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