Armenia on Thursday known as again its ambassador to Belarus for “consultation” shortly after Minsk summoned him to register a powerful protest over his Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan‘s remarks about his refusal to take a seat on the similar desk with the nation’s President Alexander Lukashenko.
Armenian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ani Badalyan stated in a press release on X that Ambassador Razmik Khumaryan has been summoned to Yerevan for consultations.
This transfer got here after the Armenian diplomat was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry earlier within the day, the place he obtained a powerful protest over Armenian Premier Pashinyan’s remarks about his refusal to go to Belarus or sit on the similar desk with President Lukashenko, who had publicly supported Azerbaijan throughout a latest go to to Baku.
Earlier Thursday, Pashinyan declared in parliament that he and different officers wouldn’t go to Belarus whereas Lukashenko stays president.
Pashinyan accused Lukashenko, an ally within the Collective Security Treaty Organization, of collaborating within the preparations for the 44-day warfare in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, in addition to encouraging and wishing Azerbaijan victory.
During his state go to to Azerbaijan from May 15-17, Lukashenko visited the Karabakh area and acknowledged that Minsk and Baku “equally understand the world and where it is moving,” providing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev help within the post-war reconstruction of Karabakh.
Relations between Baku and Yerevan have remained tense since 1991, when the Armenian navy occupied Karabakh, a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan, and 7 adjoining areas.
Most of the territory was liberated by Azerbaijan throughout a 44-day warfare within the fall of 2020, and final September, Azerbaijan established full sovereignty in Karabakh following an “anti-terrorist operation” that led to the give up of separatist forces within the area.
Source: www.anews.com.tr