"It is very important that you are starting your old new life in politics from Belarus, by holding a very important event (meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State). This indicates that we have paid and will continue to pay attention to integration processes. And we will not only pay attention to this core, our main project of the Union State, but also promote it," the President said.

The head of the department noted that for him as a leader, the opinion of every person is very important. This helps to improve the committee's work and to respond promptly to possible negative trends.

Representatives of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, the National Olympic Committee, famous athletes, schoolchildren, and the public of the regional center took part in the festive event.

The new sports complex in Vitebsk, located in the Zhurzhevo microdistrict, is planned to be commissioned in December, Mikhail Portnoy, head of the department of physical culture, sports and tourism of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent.

Over 170 officials were held accountable for violating the procedure for considering appeals from citizens and legal entities in the Vitebsk region in 2012, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's department for working with citizens' and legal entities' appeals informed a BELTA correspondent.