Tatevik Shahunyan. "I do not think that in relations with Belarus passions have run high, and therefore there is nothing to subside," he assured the journalists. ActingPrime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the contradictory positions of the two countries on the issue of the CSTO Secretary General. "What I said is valid, and will be valid", Pashinyan assured.

To note, after the withdrawal 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 chairperson in the organization of the country and the transfer of the post of General Secretary for the rotation order of 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: "The acting Prime Minister of Armenia imagines himself an international prosecutor. The norms of street democracy are not acceptable in international politics." Yerevan responded to this statement at the level of a MP from the ruling party, Alain Simonyan, who stressed that it was not Minsk to teach Pashinyan the etiquette and rules of international politics, since Minsk itself constantly violates them.