National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

19.09.2022

A round table dedicated to the Day of National Unity was held

On September 16, 2022, a round table was held dedicated to the Day of National Unity. The event was attended by the members of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, academic secretaries, leading scientists of the Academy of Sciences, historians, sociologists, art historians, young scientists.

As the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov noted, speaking to the participants of the Round Table: «One of the fateful events of the Belarusian statehood is the reunification of the Belarusian people in a single national state. As history testifies, the Belarusian people had to go through a long and dramatic way of realizing the idea of their statehood in complex and contradictory foreign and domestic political circumstances». The Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus stressed that the day of September 17 was warmly received by the inhabitants of our country, it is a real national symbol, the restoration of the historical justice in relation to the Belarusian people and should forever be fixed in the national historical tradition.

During the round table, the scientists raised the topics of the importance of the reunification of the Belarusian people in the history of the Belarusian statehood, the further socio-economic, social and cultural development of the Belarusian people. The forum gave a historical assessment of the historical prerequisites for the formation of the modern economic model of Belarus, highlighted the results of the recent sociological research by the scientists, which analyzed the attitude of the inhabitants of modern Belarus to the values that unite us.