BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

27/12/2007

Belarusian Vendors Meet With Government Representatives

Representatives of Belarusian small businesses met on December 26 with government officials to discuss the situation that arose after a recent presidential decree restricting the activities of small businesses, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. Under the decree, starting from January 1, 2008, certain small-business owners will be barred from hiring employees other than three family members. The meeting was headed by lawmaker Anatol Paulovich, chairman of the Committee on Industry, Fuel and the Energy Complex, Transportation, Communications, and Enterprise in the Belarusian legislature. Viktar Harbachou, leader of the unregistered organization For The Free Development of Enterprise, said the precondition for further talks with the authorities should be a moratorium on the decree's clause barring on hiring. Paulovich suggested vendors formulate their demands in writing and submit them to the government and the legislature. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/12/3-cee/cee-271207.asp

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