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24 April 2006, 18:05Lukashenko accuses those who ‘seek world domination’ in attempt to make Byelorussians reject their spiritual roots
Minsk, April 24, Interfax – Byelorussian President Alexander Lukashenko stated ‘those who seek world domination try to trample down our country and make the Byelorussians reject their religious roots, traditions and culture’.
‘We are not going to blindly copy an alien experience and way of life, especially today when it is evident that many principles imposed on us do not fortify but rather destroy our moral and religious values’, Lukashenko said at the Easter celebration in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Minsk.
He also gave a high appraisal to the role of the Orthodox Church, ‘which in all times has always been with her people, sharing with them the joy of gains and the bitterness of losses, always defended the interests of the Fatherland and served the cause of unity and consolidation of society’.
‘Today, twenty years after the Chernobyl tragedy, we can look to the future with confidence in the awareness that when we are a strong people, when faith is with us, everything is in our hands’, he added.
Stressing the Byelorussia is following her own path, he explained that first of all it is the way of ‘the faith of our ancestors, Fatherland, morality, Slavic unity, social justice’, which make up ‘a solid foundation of our ideology’.
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