President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called on Belarusians not to forget his own language, but admitted that it will be in second place for residents of the republic. The words of the head of state leads BelTA.
Lukashenko noted that from other countries Belarus distinguishes their native language and need to strive to know everyone Belorus. Despite this, the Belarusian president put in second place after Russian.
“Russian language – we also know it better than the Belarusian. So it happened. But after all, it is necessary to pull up to the Russian language, followed by” native Belarusian Mova “,” said the president.
The head of state stressed that the government does not impose Belarusian language, but without his knowledge, Belarusians cannot consider themselves Belarusians. “And there is nothing of Anti-Russian and so on,” he concluded.
Earlier, Lukashenko accused the opposition in the intention to introduce the “creeping” ban of Russian. He stressed that the language question in the country is closed and “this page has long been inverted.”
and Russian, and Belarusian languages in Belarus have the status of the state since 1995 – then 83.3 percent of citizens voted to the referendum for the consolidation of bilingualism in the country’s constitution.