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The Council of the Republic is the and the rest are elected from each region and Minsk , the national capital, at meetings called the Soviet of Deputies. The requirements to be selected to the Council are that a person is aged 30 or above, a citizen of Belarus, and lived in the region or Minsk for a period of 5 years, consecutively.

The main functions of the Council are the following:

#Making the laws for Belarus
#Approve the state budget
#Grant powers to the executive and judicial levels of government
#Exercise of control functions
#Help carry out foreign policy


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