KAMENETS DISTRICT, 1 August (BelTA) – At present demographic problems are more pressing for Belarus than economic ones, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with residents of the Belovezhsky agricultural town in Kamenets District, Brest Oblast, BelTA has learned.
“We have laid a good foundation. We will feed people. We will have enough food to eat and enough clothes and shoes to wear. I don’t think you have any problems with this, but we need to make sure that children receive everything that the state has to offer to them,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “The biggest problem now has to do with population numbers, not economy (though economy is the cornerstone of everything). We need a much bigger population,” he said.
The president emphasized that the government will always support families raising many children. Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that other countries do not offer so many benefits as Belarus does. “To be honest, when I think of it sometimes I ask myself whether we will be able to sustain such support forever. It is important that people understand that they should share responsibility for raising their children,” the head of state said.
