Lukashenka not to halt plunge in ruble: 'Buy our goods, rest in Belarus, don't hunt for dollars'
The exchange rate of the national currency will not be artificially restrained in Belarus. Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on Thursday.
“We are not going to artificially restrain the exchange rate of the national currency against other currencies. And we are not doing it now. If we try to restrain it in order to keep inflation at bay and to help something (times are different now), we will again have to devaluate the national currency by 30% in one go,”
“Do not hunt [for foreign currency] through exchange offices! You are creating unnecessary problems by that,” Lukashenka asked Belarusians.
The Belarusian leader also urged to support domestic producers and not to go on holiday abroad. “Let’s live on our products, i.e., on goods that our stores sell and rest in Belarus in the years to come. Let’s not take currency out [of the coutry]!”
“Frankly speaking, if earlier I got the shakes when I saw changes in exchange rates, now I am more concerned about another thing – how to hold on and not to destabilize the situation in the country”, he added.
