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Belarusian Ambassador to Armenia Alexander Konyuk was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vahan Hunanyan told the Novosti-Armenia news agency. Hunanyan didn’t provide any other details.

The move came after Lukashenko’s televised interview with a pro-Kremlin Russian journalists on Monday in which the Belarusian president argued that some post-Soviet countries – Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states will have 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.”

“We believe that the Belarusian president’s peculiar geopolitical analyses aim to first and foremost serve his domestic political agenda and have nothing to do with Armenia and its foreign policy,” the Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Vahan Hunanyan said in written comments to the press.