{"id":27614,"date":"2024-03-19T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=27614"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:34:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:34:04","slug":"belarus-celebrates-30th-anniversary-of-the-constitution-it-is-truely-peoples-state-forming-document-president-lukashenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/belarus-celebrates-30th-anniversary-of-the-constitution-it-is-truely-peoples-state-forming-document-president-lukashenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Celebrates 30th anniversary of the Constitution – It is Truely People’s State-forming Document; President Lukashenko"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"ISLAMABAD: Monitoring Desk – Constitution of Belarus has become a truly people’s state-forming document, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting timed to the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of Belarus on 15 March.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
Judges of the Constitutional Court, people who have contributed to the formation of sovereign Belarus, representatives of political parties and public organizations, MPs and scholars have been invited to the large-scale event at the Palace of Independence. The meeting is timed to coincide with a significant date. This day 30 years ago marked a new chapter in the history of sovereign and politically independent Belarus laying the legal foundations for the development of the state and society.<\/h5>\n
“Think about it: 30 years. In the history of the world, of mankind, it is just a moment, a flash. For us, those who have been building our country all these years, it is a whole life. Complex, contradictory, sometimes on the verge of possibilities but an interesting life given to the beloved country.<\/h5>\n
On this path, the Constitution of Belarus has become our guiding star, a truly people’s state-forming document, which was especially manifested during the referendums,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the meeting. \u201cWe have something to remember, we have something to say to those who have been growing up and maturing all this time. Today they already stand next to us, sharing responsibility for the future of Belarus.”<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
Among the participants of the meeting are representatives of different generations and different fields of activity. In different years, each of them directly or indirectly participated in the development and improvement of the first and only Constitution of sovereign Belarus, its implementation in all areas of state and public life. “We have thousands and thousands of people behind us, as active participants in the process as we are,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.<\/h5>\n
The President noted that along with the Basic Law, a generation of modern Belarusians contributed to the history of the formation of national statehood. Yet, this most important document was not born on barren empty soil.<\/h5>\n
“I have a great respect for the continuity and have always said that without traditions there is no nation, no state. This is a matter of the continuity of the people’s history and the preservation of the cultural code,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed. “This is a matter of our sacred connection with previous generations and those who will come after us.”<\/h5>\n
“Belarus may be a young state, but Belarusians are an absolutely mature nation. No one can challenge this status. Our Constitution embodies the achievements of many eras and it is the fact too,” the President stated.\"\"<\/h5>\n
On the one hand, this document is almost as old as sovereign Belarus. On the other hand, it is the result of centuries-old experience in the development of legal traditions and state-building on the Belarusian land. Therefore, the 30th anniversary of the Basic Law is an occasion to analyze the entire path traveled. It is important especially now, when humanity is on the verge of a global change of epochs, as it was a third of a century ago, the head of state noted.<\/h5>\n
Aleksandr Lukashenko is convinced that at the present stage it is extremely important not only to know, understand, but also to clearly voice the historical facts that make part of the national identity of Belarusians: “We need to repeat it both for ourselves and for those who follow us.” According to him, there are many such facts, and all of them are important. In his speech at the meeting, the President addressed some of them.<\/h5>\n
In particular the President recalled the Polotsk popular assembly traditions. There is a part of them in the Belarusian Constitution. \u201cMaybe, from today’s point of view, it was not the most democratic one. Only men took part in popular assemblies, but they were representatives of the \u2018deep people\u2019. In the critical moments of history, they decided on a prince to rule them, with whom to trade, and with whom to fight. In modern terms, it was the popular assembly that made the most important strategic decisions. They were adopted not by the will of one person, a prince, but with the consent of residents,\u201d the President said.<\/h5>\n
The head of state drew the historical parallels between the ancient popular assemblies and the Belarusian People’s Congress. The powers similar to those of popular assemblies have been constitutionally assigned to delegates of the Belarusian People’s Congress in modern Belarus. “We did it with the consent of the people – by an absolute majority of votes. In fact, we have created a mechanism that will not allow the authorities to break away from the people in the future,” the Belarusian leader stressed.<\/h5>\n
“We have put up a constitutional barrier against the so-called elitism, which Belarusians have rejected at the genetic level since the very time when our ancestors came under the rule of the Lithuanian and Polish elites, having lost the traditions of people’s governance.”<\/h5>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of talk about statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in our days. Yes, these statutes were progressive for that period, and had a substantial impact on the development of legislation of all the European states,\u201d the President noted. \u201cBut those documents went down in history as laws that reflect interests of exclusively rich and noble people. They worsened social inequality even further. Of course, not in form but in fact.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cI\u2019d rather not talk about the Constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that had no space at all for guarantees of rights of our nation. And the period when our lands were part of the Russian Empire left a negligible trace in Belarusian standards of jurisprudence,\u201d Aleksandr Lukashenko said.<\/h5>\n
The President deemed it necessary to remind that the Constitution of sovereign Belarus is a successor of the Constitution of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia. It was a revolutionary, progressive, and most importantly just document.<\/h5>\n

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