On November 23, Krichev / Sergey Kulyagin - BELTA /. Electricity tariffs for the population will not be increased in the near future. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Belarus, Alexander Ozerets, in response to a question from a BELTA correspondent. Today he familiarized himself with the work of the Krichev Rubber Products Plant and met with its work collective. As for more distant prospects, it is unlikely that this will be avoided due to the country's entry into the market economy, the minister noted. "We need to gradually move away from cross-subsidization of the population," believes Alexander Ozerets. "Today, this is a considerable amount of money that falls as a heavy burden either on the budget or on the industry. This issue needs to be resolved gradually, because such subsidization imbalances negatively affect the development of the economy as a whole."-0-

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