Belarus will calmly emerge from the current situation on the currency market - A. Lukashenko

April 21, Minsk /Corr. BELTA/. Belarus will calmly emerge from the current situation on the currency market, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated today in parliament, answering deputies' questions, BELTA correspondent reports. "If anyone thinks that we have lost our bearings in this situation and don't know what to do – that's nonsense. Just look, by the first half of the year, we will forget about what happened and is happening now – both in finance, and on the consumer market, and so on," the President said. "We know what to do, and we will emerge from this situation, we will emerge calmly." In Alexander Lukashenko's opinion, the main thing is to identify the categories of people who need support. At the same time, "some people need to be made to work," he added. According to the head of state, the exit from the crisis in Belarus has been prolonged. "Our economy has even slightly – by 1% – increased during this crisis, when many collapsed, for example, Ukraine – by 20%, even Russia received a negative result during the crisis," Alexander Lukashenko recalled. "We tried to emerge from the crisis gradually so as not to collapse to the bottom all at once, as economists recommended to us, so that it wouldn't be too painful for people. It would seem normal, but then another crisis hit us, related to the increase in energy prices. That's the problem – we hadn't even managed to get back on our feet when this crisis struck us." At the same time, the President emphasized that there is positive dynamics in domestic production. "Some say – here, we are working for stock. If you were working for stock with a shortage of foreign currency and financial resources, well, you put it in stock today, but what will you live on tomorrow?" Alexander Lukashenko asked a reasonable question. "In this regard, as the prime minister reported, we have normal dynamics. It's not even about stocks, there is an increase of 11% – these are actual cars, machinery, food products, footwear, clothing, and so on. And there is demand for this today." -0-