"Armenia is no longer a country robbed by you and your partners." Pashinyan resolutely responded to Lukashenka

Nikol Pashinyan and Alexander Lukashenka on October 8, 2024, in Moscow. Photo: Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP

"We will not rely on one road, one ally, one pipeline. We have a railway from West to East; the Akhalkalaki-Kars railway opened earlier, and before that, a railway opened through the territory of Azerbaijan."

Soon, the TRIPP will open, a gas pipeline will run through our territory, and thanks to this transit, we will have our own gas. We will be paid with gas for this transit. We will develop alternative energy.

"As long as Armenia can be a member of the EAEU and continue reforms according to European standards, we will follow this path. As soon as the time comes to make a choice, the people of Armenia will make that choice. My great achievement is that the people have an alternative, so that no one can say: 'Who needs Armenia, where will it go?'"

Today, Armenia is becoming a crossroads of the world. Armenia is vitally needed by both East and West, North and South. All these sides must make the best offer to the people of Armenia, who will then make their choice. We are no longer a conflict dead end; we are a crossroads of peace, the people of Armenia have a choice.

"I openly say: you are behaving mistakenly by making threatening hints, because it can no longer be said that potatoes will rise by 7 drams (5 Belarusian kopecks. — "NN"), and after that, the pressure on the people of Armenia will increase."

Armenia is no longer a country of thousands and tens of thousands, but a country of billions and trillions. It is no longer a country robbed by you and your partners," Pashinyan noted.

He added that he wants to recall the words of Alexander Lukashenka, who stated that he participated in the preparation of the 44-day war against Armenia, and also said that Armenia was needed by no one.

"Now the same person says that Armenia is joining the European Union and has activated his agent here to shackle Armenia, as it was before 2018."

"I will say it directly. Armenia not only does not intend to leave the EAEU, but I am the only official who simultaneously sits on two governing bodies of the Union. I intend to use and will use these levers so that Lukashenka cannot use the EAEU against Armenia."

All statements being made are empty statements. Those who make such statements do not understand that they are digging the grave of the EAEU. […]

The three-headed party of war does not understand that it is digging the grave of the EAEU. I advise them to abandon this path," Pashinyan emphasized.

• 47
• 0
• 2
• 1
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 0