MINSK, 8 June (BelTA) – Taking care of war veterans is a particularly responsible area of integration cooperation between Belarus and Russia. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement during the plenary session of the third Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia in Minsk on 8 June, BelTA has learned.
“In two weeks we will mark a sorrowful date — the 75th anniversary since the day Nazi Germany launched a treacherous war against the USSR. The date will once again remind Belarusians and Russians that taking care of war veterans is a particularly responsible area of integration interaction,” said the President.
“Helping people, who have gone through many hardships and have restored the country, is our priority and an important direction of the social policy,” stressed the head of state.
It would be totally inadmissible to forget that Belarusians and Russians have gone through the hardest trials together, Alexander Lukashenko is convinced. “We have always been together. In joy and sorrow,” noted the head of state. The Belarusian and Russian nations went through these trials and survived them with honor, standing shoulder to shoulder.
“In Belarusian land we treat with due care the historic truth, the joint combat and labor accomplishments of our nations. We hold sacred the memory about the Great Patriotic War,” continued the President.
The head of state pointed out that Belarus has never treated the memory of both world wars in an unfair and abnormal manner. “We have never destroyed monuments,” stressed Alexander Lukashenko. There are thousands of them in Belarus but even those located in faraway villages are taken good care of. And care is given by young Belarusians, who, from an early age, are taught to respect the deeds of those who fell in the Belarusian land to protect the common fatherland, said the President.
