70th anniversary of the Great Victory

SAINT PETERSBURG, 17 April (BelTA) - Preserving the memory of the Great Victory is the number one task for the Belarusian state, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich said at the plenary meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly held on 17 April to mark the 70^th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, BelTA has learned.

“Today the number one task for the Belarusian state is to preserve the memory of the Great Victory and to take care of 17,800 war veterans,” Mikhail Myasnikovich said.

According to the Speaker, some historians have been recently making attempts to revise the results of the war and diminish the contribution of the CIS nations to the defeat of the Nazis. “Belarus, the country that suffered the worst in the war, strongly condemns the attempts to rewrite our common history. We must not allow the mockery of the cherished memory and the people’s grief,” he stressed.

According to Mikhail Myasnikovich, the Ukrainian conflict makes us take a difaferent look at the situation and draw some conclusions. “We should analyze whether everything is done to preserve peace and stability in the CIS,” the MP said.

The program of the CIS IPA meeting included speeches of the heads of the national parliaments of the CIS states and a ceremony of awarding the CIS war veterans with the medal of the 70^th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.