OREANDA-NEWS. March 4, 2008. Any investor, who comes to work on the Belarusian market, should be socially responsible, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with top executives of Turkish telecommunication company Turkcell.

“I would like companies to enter the Belarusian market not only for earnings, but for helping people in the social sphere,” noted the head of state. “Because Belarusians will help with the earnings and certainly something should be left to them”.

In turn, the Turkcell executives said they are very interested in investing in telecommunications and other branches of the Belarusian economy. While choosing projects, they intend to take into account recommendations of the country’s leadership. The Turkish side underscored Turkcell has been recognised as socially responsible: in all the countries the company worked in much attention was paid to the social and humanitarian sphere. Turkcell carried out projects relating to education, insurance and the construction of social infrastructure.