As you know, the current version of the concept was approved in November 2010. The preparation of an updated document, recalls agency said the head of state in September last year during a meeting with the Secretary of State of the Security Council, Alexander Volfovich, stressing that he had to be absolutely frank.“There is no need to hide anything, based on certain political or even economic motives,” the president explained. It is necessary, according to him, “to honestly prescribe the risks, the threats that exist and our reaction to them. So that neighbors and others know how we are going to react. So that they do not say that it was a surprise to someone, nothing should be hidden, everything should be done honestly.With regard to the draft law on the people’s militia, observers specify that it should define the legal basis of the people’s militia, the recruitment procedure and its training. It was reported that such detachments could be formed solely for the purpose of protecting their territory and country in times of war.The people’s militia, Lukashenka noted earlier, can be a reserve for territorial defense and, in the event of hostilities, turn, including into a partisan movement.
