Pashinyan, Lukashenko meet during BRICS summit

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 25, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a brief conversation with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia’s Kazan.

Images showing Pashinyan and Lukashenko talking were posted on social media.

This was the first meeting between the two leaders after Pashinyan deplored Lukashenko for his pro-Azeri remarks earlier this year. Lukashenko had admitted that he had not only been aware of Baku’s plans to attack Nagorno-Karabakh, but also endorsed them during his meetings with Azeri leader Ilham Aliyev before the 2020 war.

Pashinyan criticized the statement in the context of both Armenia and Belarus being CSTO members.

“I declare that I will never visit Belarus as long as Alexander Lukashenko is its president,” Pashinyan had said. “And in general, no official representative of Armenia will visit Belarus at this point.”