Belarus: Government Bodies

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Belarus Nuclear Related Government Agencies
	Executive Branch
	Government and Selected Ministries Cabinet of Ministers Defense Emergency Situations and Chornobyl Affairs Energy Foreign Affairs Foreign Economic Relations Interior Natural Resources and Environmental Control
	Legislative Branch Council of the Republic: Upper House of National Assembly House of Representatives: Lower House of National Assembly
	State Committees, Commissions, and Agencies Border Guards Committee for State Security (KGB) National Security Council State Committee on Foreign Affairs State Customs Committee
	Non-Governmental Organizations The Belarus Nuclear Society Institute of Radiation Protection International Institute for Policy Studies Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Problems

Belarus: Government Bodies

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Belarus: Executive Branch

In November 1996, a referendum was held which passed a new constitution, despite objections to the process and fairness of the vote. The referendum restructured the Belarusian parliament and greatly enhanced the president's powers.
[Ustina Markus, "The Belarusian Referendum Results," OMRI Analytical Brief 495, http://search.omri.cz.] {updated 9/18/98 FW}

President: Alyaksandr Lukashenka (Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko)[1]
Lukashenka was elected first president of Belarus on 10 July 1994. He is a former deputy of the Belarus Supreme Soviet and advocates closer ties to Russia and Ukraine. The position of President of Belarus was established in March 1994 by parliamentary approval of the then new Constitution. The President is elected for a five-year term, with the possibility of reelection for a second, and final, term. The President is the Head of State and head of the executive branch.[2][3] In 1996 Lukashenka's first term as president was extended by two years and in 1997 by an additional year. Presidential elections in September 2001 granted Lukashenka a second term as President of Belarus.[4]
Sources:
[1] "Kto est kto v Belarusi," Fond podderzhki nezavisimoy pressy Web Site, http://fpnp.org/projects/wsw/wsee/tree_33.phtml?kod=15.]
[2] Komsomolskaya pravda, 12 July 1994, p. 1.
[3] "Presidency Being Introduced In Belarus," Press Release from the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus to the United States of America, 5 March 1994.
[4] "People in Power: Belarus," Quest Economic Database, CIRCA (Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs), 16 July 2002; in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, http://web.lexis-nexis.com.] {Updated 9/6/02 EL}

Assistant to the President: Valeriy Velyaminovich Tsepkalo
["Kto est kto v Belarusi," Fond podderzhki nezavisimoy pressy Web Site, http://fpnp.org/projects/wsw/wsee/tree_33.phtml?kod=170.] {Updated 9/6/02 EL}

PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
Chairman: Ural Ramdrakovich Latypov
First Deputy Chairman: Stanislav Nikiforovich Knyazev
Deputy Chairman For Legal Matters: Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Abramovich
["Kto est kto v Belarusi," Fond podderzhki nezavisimoy pressy Web Site, http://fpnp.org/projects/wsw/wsee/tree_33.phtml?kod=170.] {Updated 9/6/02 EL}

Last updated 8 April 2003

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