Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on Friday that he viewed "living normally and earning money" as the principal human right.
"Since you elected me, I have to demand from those who elected [me] and those who did not this very attitude to people," he said at a meeting of executives representing government-controlled food supply giant Belkaapsayuz.
"These are the human rights about which the 'fifth column' speaks and which the West teaches us about. The main human right is to live normally and earn money, raise children," the presidential press office quoted him as saying.
