ArmInfo. "Everything that I have promised to do has been done," - Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reporters on December 7 in the city of Gyumri, referring to the distance debate with the leader of Belarus, due to the appointment of a new CSTO Secretary General, Nikol Pashinyan had said that on December 6 in St. Petersburg he would demand clarification from Alexander Lukashenko.
To note, after the recall of the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke in favor of early termination of the powers of Armenia as the chairperson of the organization of the country and the transfer of the post of Secretary General on the rotation order to Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko subsequently discussed the situation with the ambassador of Azerbaijan, telling him the details of the closed meeting and supporting the position of Nazarbayev. In response to this, RA Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he would demand explanations from the Belarusian and Kazakh presidents. Minsk, through the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry, Anatoly Glaza, reproached Pashinyan for violating the norms of the international protocol:
"Acting Prime Minister of Armenia imagines himself an international prosecutor. Norms of street democracy are not acceptable in international politics. "Yerevan responded to this statement at the level of an MP from the ruling party, Alen Simonyan, who stressed that it was not Minsk to teach Pashinyan the etiquette and rules of international politics, since Minsk itself constantly violates them. At the same time, on December 5, in an interview with journalists, referring to the topic, Pashinyan said that, in addition to the main agenda of the EAEU Supreme Economic Council, an informal discussion of the leaders of the CIS was held in St. Petersburg. It was then, as pointed out the head of the Armenian government, he will demand clarification from President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. As Pashinyan stated: "Of course. We should talk about the existing problems. We should not leave them for later!" .