SHKLOV REGION, 18 June (BelTA) – The average salary in Belarus should be $500 by the next All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told reporters on 18 June, BelTA has learnt. “By the time the assembly is held the average salary should reach $500. We will do our utmost to achieve that, of course, if we are not covered by some unhappy “wave” from the Atlantic or the Pacific,” the President said. The Belarusian leader added that all the accounts had been prepared and “we keep up with the schedule”. Alexander Lukashenko reminded that the government of Belarus had recently started raising the salaries all over the country beginning with public sector employees. “This is a beginning, a good beginning and it is not the last one. We are recovering from the consequences of the global crisis that affected us, too,” he said. At the same time, Alexander Lukashenko noted that the residents of Mogilev exemplify a possibility to earn $500 even in the agricultural sector. Speaking about the Alexandriyskoye company he visited today, the President said: “Here people make $500 and even more. This is why it is not me who should tell you how to earn $500; it is you who should tell the whole country how to do it.” The head of state admitted though that there is still much work ahead to make a $500 salary a reality across all over the country.

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