Pashinyan admits Armenia may not participate in EAEU meetings in Belarus

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on December 26 that the republic's delegations may not participate in the EAEU summits in Belarus.

Pashinyan announced such a possibility in his Telegram channel after a dispute with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council.

"Delegations from the Republic of Armenia will participate remotely or will not participate in the EAEU meetings to be held in Belarus," he wrote.

The dispute between the two leaders came after Pashinyan said the Armenian delegation plans to participate remotely in the next council meeting in Minsk in May 2025. Lukashenko responded by asking about the reasons for the decision.

Earlier, on September 12, Lukashenko said that the events in Nagorno-Karabakh were the fault of the Armenian leadership. According to the Belarusian leader, he called for peace in the region, but Yerevan took a different position.

In June, Pashinyan promised that he wouldn't visit Belarus until there was no change of power in the republic. Thus, he spoke out after another statement by Lukashenko, who at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called the events in Nagorno-Karabakh a war of liberation.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry emphasized at the time that Minsk was not going to worsen relations with Yerevan, no matter how much external players push the Armenian leadership to do so.