Armenia criticizes Belarus: Minsk summons its ambassador “for consultations”

Armenia criticizes Belarus: Minsk summons its ambassador “for consultations” Maryan-Sergey Chupak

Belarus summoned its ambassador from Armenia/Collage by Channel 24

After the resonant statements of the Armenian Prime Minister, Minsk decided to summon its ambassador. In fact, in order to understand “what attitude to the situation” in Armenia Belarus has.

On Thursday, June 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus announced the decision to summon the ambassador from Armenia after critical remarks by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding Minsk's support for Azerbaijan within the framework of the CSTO, – reports 24 Channel.

Relations between Armenia and Belarus are increasingly tense

According to a message from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, department representative Anatoly Glaz said , that the ambassador in Yerevan, Alexander Konyuk, will return to Minsk for consultations to understand the situation in Armenia.

Glaz noted that Belarus sees a “difficult internal political situation” in Armenia and understands “different resistance to emotional stress.”

However, we do not understand what Belarus has to do with this. A representative of the Armenian Embassy was called to the Foreign Ministry today to clarify this issue. Due to the development of the situation, our ambassador from Yerevan will also arrive in Minsk soon,” he emphasized. make Belarus an “external enemy” to divert attention from internal problems.

The most interesting thing is that in May 2024, the Armenian prime minister hinted: Belarus and Russia, which are members of the CSTO, in fact helped Azerbaijan prepare for war against Armenia. We are talking about the aggravation in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.

In general, the conflict lasted 44 days of the year – that is, from September 27 to November 10, 2020. As a result of the fighting, Azerbaijan increased its territory. After the operation, Russian and Turkish peacekeeping contingents entered the region.

The confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been going on for decades. The first Karabakh war lasted from 1988 to 1994. In September 2023, the Azerbaijani military took control of all of Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku called it an anti-terrorist operation,