Armenian Foreign Ministry responds to Lukashenko’s remarks

12:58, 8 February, 2022

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia responded to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko's remarks on Armenia.

“Surely, the Belarusian president’s unique geopolitical analyses are aimed first of all at serving domestic political agenda and have nothing to do with Armenia and its foreign policy,” Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan said in a statement.

In a recent interview, Lukashenko said the Union State between Russia and Belarus should expand and include most of the ex-Soviet republics. Particularly, speaking on Armenia, he said “Armenia has nowhere to run…..what, you think anyone needs them? They have already seen it, Nikol Vovayevich [Pashinyan] has already seen it.”

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS