Lukashenko discussed the need to create military prosecutors' offices. What did the President order?

Summing up the meeting after discussing the issues on the agenda, Alexander Lukashenko noted that it was too early to make a decision on creating a system of military prosecutors’ offices. There is no point in getting ahead of ourselves, because there is no emergency in this, the President emphasized.

 However, it is necessary to improve prosecutorial supervision and increase its effectiveness, including in military units. According to the head of state, in the bowels of the Prosecutor General’s Office today it is necessary to crystallize the basis of this future system (train personnel, understand the format of work, establish interdepartmental interaction), so that over time, if such a need arises, appropriate decisions can be quickly made.

 “The head of state noted the need to further strengthen the role of the prosecutor’s office as a supervisory body and take all measures to strengthen prosecutorial supervision, including over our Armed Forces and other military formations. He was given the task of starting work in the General Prosecutor’s Office in the near future to train future military prosecutors A kind of intermediate system should be created, a structure that should prepare the necessary personnel with experience in military service, who understand the specifics of supervisory activities in the Armed Forces and military formations. And, as the head of state said, when the time comes, if necessary, the creation of a military prosecutor's office will a decision has been made,” Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told reporters.