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Lukashenko to students: ‘Light up your lives with bright colors’

MINSK, 13 December (BelTA) - Light up your lives with bright colors!, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed students at the closing ceremony of the third labor semester of 2024 in the format of the Belarusian nationwide meeting of student teams in Minsk on 13 December, BelTA learned.

“You are young people; you have all your lives ahead of you. You write the story of your life every day, every hour. You try to write the story of your life in bright chapters. My advice to you: light up your lives with bright colors. Participation in the student construction movement will be one of the brightest chapters of your lives. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about, because I once took an active part in this movement,” the Belarusian leader said.

Addressing the youth, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that all kinds of things will happen in their lives. Some will be good, some not. But bad things will be forgotten. “You will remember good things. The higher you climb the career ladder, the more you will refer to those chapters of your life, which you colored in bright colors when you were young. This labor chapter will always be bright,” the president emphasized.

The head of state stated that he has many chaptersin his life, but while at this event he remembered the bright chapter of working in student teams. “Of course, the motivation was a little different. It hasn't disappeared though. All of us want to earn some money in order to provide for ourselves. Even if our parents are well-off, we still try to be independent when we're young, including financially. It hasn't gone anywhere. But you are quite different from what we were,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

He also noted that now when he meets with villagers and workers he has something to say to them, including thanks to his experience of working in student brigades. “I want you to gain this experience too to have something to say to people after many decades. And not only to your children, but also to those interlocutors with whom you will meet. I believe that new leaders, new ministers and so on will grow from this movement which unites 4,000 people today. I am sure that most of you will be able to grow to leadership positions and once you are there you will leaf through your lives to tell others what you were like. And you were good,” the head of state said.

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