Dictator provokes scandal over remarks about Nagorno-Karabakh

The Belarusian MFA refutes the dictator's remarks he made during his visit to Kyiv.

Novosti-Armenia news agency has learnt it from deputy foreign ministry of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharian.

The matter is Lukashenka's remark about the situation of Nagorno-Karabakh cited by the newspaper Izvestia v Ukraine. Armenia thinks the interview of the Belarusian ruler contains “unacceptable words” about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

According to the newspaper, Lukashenka said: “What concerns Nagorno-Karabakh, how it looks, how people live and work there. There's no normal life there. I understood that the problem must be solved. I talked to one president, then to the other. I explained that the situation couldn't continue like that. The Armenians agreed with me. I talked to Ilham Aliyev and he said he wasn't against. But I hate the role of a mediator. I suggested that Ukraine should play this role, but they didn't want it.”

Yerevan didn't like the remark by the Belarusian ruler about the absence of “normal life” in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian MFA says.

Yerevan remained satisfied with the reply of the Belarusian side, but other questions appeared.

“According to the information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Lukashenka didn't make statements with such words. Moreover, the president of Belarus didn't give an interview to Izvestia Ukrainy during his official visit to Ukraine,” Kocharian said.

It turns out that the Belarusian MFA tries to convince their Armenian counterparts that the interview with Ukrainian journalists was a fake.