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The All Belarusian People's Assembly (Belarusian: Усебеларускі народны сход, Russian: Всебелорусскае народное собрание) is a general meeting of the Belarusian Government with industry leaders and other top officials from every sector of the government. The citizens of Belarus are also permitted to take part of the discussion. The third and last recent session of the All Belarusian People's Assembly began on March 1, 2006 and was chaired by current President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The meeting is similar to the Communist Party Congresses that were held during the era of the Soviet Union, which Belarus was a part of from 1922 until 1991.

[edit] History

A decree was passed by President Lukashenko on August 29 1996 to announce the meeting of the first Assembly. The meeting was later held from October 19-20 of that same year. [1] The second Assembly took place in May 2001.