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Lukashenko: Our main common task is to protect the country

KIROVSK DISTRICT, 20 June (BelTA) - Our main common task is to protect the country, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in a ceremony to unveil a memorial complex commemorating the burned villages of Mogilev Oblast in the village of Borki, Kirovsk District on 20 June, BelTA has learned.

“There is not a more peaceful nation than Belarusians. We have suffered greatly in our history. We were almost never overeign and independent. The sovereignty and independence fell on our heads unexpectedly. More than 20 years ago we got this piece of the former huge empire. Without leadership, government, money. More so, there was no food back then," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

Having gained independence, the Belarusian people have built a beautiful, flourishing, quiet and calm country in a very short period of time, the head of state noted.

“While creating all this together with you, I wanted that we and, above all our children, should live on it by our wits, freely, and decently,” the president said. “But I could not imagine that 75 years after the victory over Nazism and a quarter of a century after we began to build our quiet and peaceful home, whose name is Belarus, we would have to defend the peace and calm again (albeit peacefully today),” he noted.

“I never thought that in Belarus there would appear people who would want to break the country, mutilate the memory and destroy everything that Belarusian people have achieved," the head of state said.

The president noted that at the moment the country is not going through some dangerous or terrible things. There is no some catastrophic state of things, including in the minds of people, “but some forces constantly try to stir up trouble, escalate the situation.”

“Assessing my actions at this time, which is very dangerous for the sovereignty and independence of the country, I want you to understand me. No one will be allowed to betray, break and destroy what we have created together for the past quarter of a century. We must preserve our peaceful and calm country in the name of those who died, in the name of children who never knew what kindergarten or school were. We must preserve our country. And we will,” the Belarusian leader said.

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