The President announced new appointments. The head of state appointed new members to the Board of the National Bank. Banks must ensure economic security, guarantee financial stability of the real sector, Aleksandr Lukashenko said to the new managers. Serious changes were made in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the diplomatic corps. Today the head of state appointed ambassadors to the United States, the Netherlands, Austria, Great Britain and Kazakhstan. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, today’s new appointments are very important in the history of the Belarusian diplomatic service.