The 1992 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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       Legislative branch:

       unicameral with 360 seats

       Judicial branch:

       NA

       Leaders:

       Chief of State:

       Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Stanislav S. SHUSHKEVICH (since NA 1991)

       Head of Government:

       Prime Minister Vyacheslav F. KEBICH (since NA April 1990), First Deputy

       Prime Minister Mikhail MYASNIKOVICH (since early 1991)

       Political parties and leaders:

       Belarusian Popular Front, Zenon POZNYAK, chairman; United Democratic Party,

       Stanislav GUSAK, co-chairman; Social Democratic Gramada, Mikhail TKACHEV,

       chairman; Belarus Workers Union, Mikhail SOBOL, Chairman

       Suffrage:

       universal at age 18

       Elections:

       President:

       NA

       Supreme Soviet:

       last held 4 March 1990 (next to be held NA); results - percent of vote by

       party NA; seats - (360 total) number of seats by party NA; note - 50 seats

       are for public bodies

       Communists:

       NA

       Other political or pressure groups:

       NA

       Member of:

       CE, CIS, CSCE, ECE, IAEA, ILO, INMARSAT, IOC, ITU, NACC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,

       UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO

       Diplomatic representation:

       Ambassador Martynov; Chancery at NA NW, Washington, DC 200__; telephone NA

       US:

       Ambassador (vacant); David SWARTZ, Charge d'Affaires; Embassy at Hotel

       Belarus (telephone 8-011-7-0172-69-08-02) plus 7 hours; (mailing address is

       APO New York is 09862); telephone NA

       Flag:

       white, red, and white

      :Belarus Economy

      Overview:

       In many ways Belarus resembles the three Baltic states, for example, in its

       industrial competence, its higher-than-average standard of living, and its

       critical dependence on the other former Soviet states for fuels and raw

       materials. Belarus ranks fourth in gross output among the former Soviet

       republics, producing 4% of the total GDP and employing 4% of the labor

       force. Once a mainly agricultural area, it now supplies important producer

       and consumer goods - sometimes as the sole producer - to the other states.

       The soil in Belarus is not as fertile as the black earth of Ukraine, but by

       emphasizing favorable crops and livestock (especially pigs and chickens),

       Belarus has become a net exporter to the other republics of meat, milk,

       eggs, flour, and potatoes. Belarus produces only small amounts of oil and

       gas and receives most of its fuel from Russia through the Druzhba oil

       pipeline and the Northern Lights gas pipeline. These pipelines transit

       Belarus enroute to Eastern Europe. Belarus produces petrochemicals,

       plastics, synthetic fibers (nearly 30% of former Soviet output), and

       fertilizer (20% of former Soviet output). Raw material resources are limited

       to potash and peat deposits. The peat (more than one-third of the total for

       the former Soviet Union) is used in domestic heating as boiler fuel for

       electric power stations and in the production of chemicals. The potash

       supports fertilizer production.

       GDP:

       NA - $NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate —2% (1991)

       Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       81% (1991)

       Unemployment rate:

       NA%

       Budget:

       revenues $NA million; expenditures $NA million, including capital

       expenditures of $NA million

       Exports:

       $4.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

       commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs

       partners:

       NA

       Imports:

       $5.6 billion (c.i.f., 1990)

       commodities:

       machinery, chemicals, textiles

       partners:

       NA

       External debt:

       $2.6 billion (end of 1991)

       Industrial production:

       growth rate —1.5% (1991)

       Electricity:

       7,500,000 kW capacity; 38,700 million kWh produced, 3,770 kWh per capita

       (1991)

      :Belarus Economy

      Industries:

       employ about 27% of labor force and produce a wide variety of products

       essential to the other states; products include (in percent share of total

       output of former Soviet Union): tractors(12%); metal-cutting machine tools

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