Documentary exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

On August 23, 2024, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus (NARB) presented a documentary exhibition in the Government House dedicated to the ceremonial event on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.

The Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus is a state body that acts on the basis of the approved regulations and carries out the functions of organizing and monitoring the implementation of decisions taken by the Council of Ministers, ensures the preparation for consideration of submitted proposals, draft legal acts, and other documents, carries out organizational, informational, expert-analytical, legal and other support for the activities of the Council of Ministers, and maintains its personnel register.

The Head of the Office of the Council of Ministers is equal to a minister and is a member of the government, appointed to the position and dismissed from the position by the President of the Republic of Belarus. The number of employees of the Office is established by the President, and its structure and staffing table are approved by the Prime Minister. By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated August 23, 1994 No.57, the Department of Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus was abolished and the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus was formed as the working body of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. At the exhibition, NARB presented documents reflecting the history of the formation of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus: the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the approval of the staffing table of the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in 1994, the staffing tables of the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus for different years; the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the appointment of A.A. Sokolovsky as the Head of the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in 1994; the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the approval of the Regulation on the Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in 1995; information on the document flow of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus for 2001 and 2004; order of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on approval of regulations on structural divisions in 2004; personal files of the heads of the Office, orders on their appointment and other documents.

Head of the Department of Document and Information Use M.A.Starostenko introduced the participants of the event to the unique documents of the archive.