need help with rewrite

hello,

I need url

domain.com/en/forum/?a=1&a=2&lang=ru

to be rewrited to

domain.com/ru/forum/?a=1&a=2

I ended up with

if ($args ~* "lang=(en|lt|ru|de)(.*)") {   rewrite "^/.{2}(.*)$" /$arg_lang/$1? redirect; }

but the GET variable "lang" is causing infinite loop - how to unset the "lang" in nginx?