Belarus Foreign Ministry urges Armenia to be "more decent"
If other countries behaved similarly...

ANALYTICS  04 November 2022 - 16:20

The story of how Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko taught Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan to be smart at the recent CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organisation]extraordinary session is one of the most popular video memes on the web today. However, this story had a continuation, which not everyone knows about: the Armenian Foreign Ministry, having gathered courage, attacked the Belarusian Foreign Ministry with reproaches in an attempt to defend Pashinyan's honour, but received a worthy rebuff. Minsk's response turned out to be even more exhaustive and revealed all the cards of the inadequate and deceitful policy of Armenia and the Pashinyan cabinet. As they say, worthy of imitation - we applaud standing.

Someone from a high-profile event hastened to share on social networks a video with the Belarus president's monologue, which was deadly for the Armenian megalomania, anticipating it with the title "How Lukashenka stood up for Ilham Aliyev", did not see the essence. After all, it's not only and not so much about the warm relations between the Azerbaijani and Belarus leaders, it's just that Lukashenka expressed everything in the face of Pashinyan, who is constantly playing a farce on international platforms. Moreover, the Belarus leader warned Nikol Vovaevich and other Armenian figures not to try to turn the CSTO and other allied organisations into the same farce in the future – the reaction will be harsh.

Lukashenko's caustic and sobering speech was literally replete with vivid metaphors characterising Pashinyan's behaviour. Even more aptly, it revealed the absurdity of the Armenian prime minister's statements about Azerbaijan's policy and the absolute groundlessness of Armenia's complaints to the CSTO and other international structures. "I'm tired of it!" is, perhaps, Lukashenko's key message.

Rejecting, apparently, the lesson taught, the cabinet of the disgraced Armenian prime minister found nothing better than to lash out with claims against Minsk, but he did it so absurdly that he exposed both the entire Armenian leadership and Pashinyan himself in an even more stupid light.

I agree that the reaction of an adequately thinking person when he is told about his miscalculations and mistakes, convincingly proving what, where and why, as a rule, consists in rethinking his words and actions. But neither Pashinyan nor the Armenian Foreign Ministry definitely possesses such qualities. Otherwise, the message of the CSTO and Minsk, clearly designed for an interstate scandal, would not have followed.

How else can we interpret Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko's statement that the CSTO is not at all obliged in this particular case, that is, in another escalation of the situation on the conditional Azerbaijani-Armenian border, and in general in the tense relations of the two South Caucasus countries to take sides and even more so to defend Armenia, contradicts allied and partnership relations with Russia, Belarus and other countries of the bloc?

in particular, in his comment to Sputnik Armenia Vahan Hunanyan noted that Lukashenko's words are divorced from reality. "We do not consider it appropriate to comment on the Belarus president's statements that are chaotic, disconnected from the logic of negotiations and contradict allied and partner relations," Hunanyan said.

In general, it is quite Armenian: the wounded pride of the "most ancient" nation, no conclusions for themselves and worthy arguments that Lukashenko is wrong.

But the Belarusian Foreign Ministry did not consider it necessary to remain silent either, since the Armenians went over the edge in their attacks, calling the speech of the Belarusian president "chaotic, contrary to allied and partnership relations". It was necessary to teach the Armenians a lesson, and the blow turned out to be no less accurate and painful than Lukashenko's rebuke.

The official representative of the Belarus Foreign Ministry, Anatoliy Glaz, coped with this mission perfectly – his statement clearly showed who is openly lying and trying to put noodles on the ears of the whole world, and who, clearly assessing the situation, is steadily dropping these noodles and is not going to suffer and to shed blood due to Armenians encroaching on someone else's property. In short, he impressively put Yerevan in its place.

According to the Belarusian diplomat, "the Armenian Foreign Ministry has taken a very original position", questioning the allied obligations of Belarus, although "Belarus has been confirming its loyalty to its allied obligations not in words, but in deeds throughout its history", so it is unprofessional to question this obvious fact.

And then a complete route. The Belarus Foreign Ministry bluntly pointed out to the Armenians that Yerevan's policy has never been distinguished by sincerity and friendliness, or, to put it bluntly, by elementary decency.

"Decency is one of the features of our foreign policy. Therefore, our partners and allies can be confident in us in the future. If other countries had behaved the same way, many problems would have been avoided," the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, represented by Glaz, said.

According to the diplomat, the Belarus president's approaches are not unrealistic, but rather are based on real, confirmed facts and events, making them extremely understandable and honest in an allied manner. And then a very moralising stick to the whole many-sided and dirty game of Yerevan: "It is in such an open vein, without political games and intrigues, that issues concerning people's destinies and lives should be discussed."

The question by Glaz is also quite appropriate, what was this belated and unwise assessment of the Armenian Foreign Ministry? In other words, if you are a fool, then why prove it to others? In addition, there is a very definite hint in this issue of Armenia's destructive actions, which once again by its actions bring discord into the CSTO's work. Despite Moscow's efforts to keep the CSTO from the collapse predicted by many political analysts, Armenia has created a very dangerous precedent through its public skirmish with another CSTO member, once again proving its foreign policy's toxicity.

In conclusion of his detailed answer, the Belarus Foreign Ministry representative ironically advised "friends and partners to carefully read and re-read the Belarus president's numerous speeches on this difficult, but quite a solvable issue", that is, in other words, recommended the Armenian "friends" to work more on themselves to improve their diplomatic skills and learn to analytically evaluate what was expressed in their the address, especially when it is done with good intentions.

Did Pashinyan and the Armenian Foreign Ministry hear such an understandable and maximally intelligible answer from Belarus? Did the essence of what was said reach them? After all, with its stupid demarche on the principle of "the best defence is an attack", Armenia led to the fact that allied Belarus had to convict the Armenian leadership of brazen and almost blatant lies about and without, attempts to falsify facts, the desire to pass off black for white to mislead the world community.

However, it is not so easy to hide the politics of chauvinism, misanthropy, and passion for someone else's good under lascivious speeches. Is it possible to wean from these vices of the Armenian state's power, which have become ingrained in the entire history and psychology of the Armenian people? The question is complicated. But Yerevan, of course, received an excellent lesson, an edifying slap in the face at a high state level, which seriously hurt the pride of the Armenian leadership. However, the hope for learning this lesson remains – for even a fool learns, if not from others, then at least from his own mistakes and bruises.

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