Armenian MPs lash out at Lukashenko for anti-Armenian statement

YEREVAN, February 8. ARKA/. Armenian MPs from the ruling Civic Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan lashed out at Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who made anti-Armenian statements in an interview with Russian state-owned television.

In the interview Lukashenko urged some of post-Soviet countries - Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states – to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

Speaking about Armenia, Lukashenko said: "Armenia has nowhere to go. Do you think anybody needs them? They've already seen it, Nikol Pashinyan has already seen it."

MP Vagharshak Hakobyan said such words are unacceptable and inappropriate for the president of the country, and such language is reprehensible.

"The leader of a partner country has no right to express such thoughts about another partner country. I want to remind who needed Armenia during the recent events in Kazakhstan. I am sure that Mr. Lukashenko knows better than anyone else who needs Armenia," he said.

Another MP Rustam Bakoyan raised a counter question: "And who needs Lukashenko?"

"This rhetorical question, I think, (the Belarusian) people asked him, and the processes that occurred in that country were a clear assessment of Lukashenko’s previous terms in office, the state he kept the country in and what the result is," he said.

Armenia and Belarus are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union, which consists of several former Soviet republic.--0--