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Belarus president calls for united front against threat of global terrorism

MINSK, 9 May (BelTA) - All countries must work together to maintain peace today when there is a threat of global terrorism, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed the event on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Great Victory in Minsk on 9 May, BelTA learned.

The head of state noted that the current generation of the military honors the Victory traditions. “After all, the main lesson of the Great Victory is that peace  must be fought for. Especially nowadays, when it is under the gun of global terrorism and not only it. We need to fight for peace together, in unison. As it was then, in the harsh 1940s when the Belarusian resistance had thousands of anti-fascist members from European states: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, France, Italy and even Germany,” the president said.

There is no such unity in Europe today, the president noted with regret. "What we see is the growing military presence on our borders. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has been terminated,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

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