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MINSK, 6 May (BelTA) – UN member states should revive the original spirit of the United Nations Organization, the spirit of the Elbe Day through their own practical actions, openness, and the willingness to meet each other half way, including using special opportunities of the UN summit in September 2015. The relevant statement was made by Andrei Dapkiunas, Resident Representative of Belarus in the United Nations Organization, during a special festive session of the UN General Assembly. The session was held to honor the 70^th anniversary of the end of World War Two and memory of the war dead, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA.

Andrei Dapkiunas stressed the unbreakable ties between the two landmark events that occurred in spring 1945: the linkup of the Allied nations on the Elbe River and the beginning of the San Francisco conference to found the United Nations Organization. Both events heralded new hope for the mankind.

Andrei Dapkiunas remarked that, unfortunately, these events failed to usher in a new age of cooperation and trust. The world still rests assured that the domination and suppression of the weak and the disagreeing by the strong are motive powers of the human history.

The present-day world has never needed live memory of the last world war as much as it needs now. It is not only a common human debt to the dozens of millions of victims of the past war but the lessons that cannot be forgotten if one’s own peaceful future is to be secured. “Those, who forget lessons of history, are doomed to repeat them,” said Andrei Dapkiunas.