Thursday, February 10 2022 13:20

ArmInfo.Nikol Pashinyan's policy on the principle of "whatever you like" leaves no room for giving an appropriate response to Alexander Lukashenko's statement.   Independent analyst Saro Saroyan expressed a similar opinion to  ArmInfo.

"The Prime Minister of Armenia "perfectly", I would say, "diligently"  performs the functions assigned to him. He silently and humbly  fulfills all the requirements of Moscow, meets all the proposals  coming from there. Armenia does not pursue its own foreign policy,  the Armenian policy is derived from the policy of Russia. As long as  such a situation exists, it seems to be problematic to develop an  appropriate response to Lukashenko's attacks," he noted.

On February 7, in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov, President of  Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, commenting on the possibility of  Armenia joining the Union State of Russia and Belarus, said that  Armenia "has nowhere to go." " Do you think anyone needs them?  They  have seen. Nikol [Pashinyan] has seen it," he said. On February 8,  Belarusian Ambassador Alexander Konyuk visited the Armenian Foreign  Ministry in this regard.

According to Saroyan, the tools and mechanisms for forming responses  to such statements by the Belarusian president are conditioned by the  formation and implementation of a truly independent, sovereign, and  not declarative policy by Yerevan. The latter presupposes clear goals  and actions.

At the same time, the analyst stressed that Lukashenko's statement  did not refer only to Armenia, but also to other countries of the  post-Soviet space. "I consider his statement in an interview with  Solovyov in the same context and within the framework of a single  logic with all other his  statements. Lukashenko calls to order all  countries that may not understand what is actually happening in the  post-Soviet space today and where the latest geopolitical impulses  lead and what is their role in them," the analyst summed up.