A Eurasian Economic Union meeting turned tense when Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan clashed with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a live broadcast. The heated exchange highlighted deepening rifts within the Russia-led alliance.
Lukashenko urged Pashinyan to attend the next meeting in Belarus in person, but Pashinyan refused, citing frozen high-level visits over Belarus’s support for Azerbaijan. Despite attempts to defuse the argument, the leaders’ spat unfolded awkwardly as Russian President Vladimir Putin and others looked on in silence.
The incident underscores ongoing fractures within the bloc, originally established to foster economic cooperation but increasingly strained by geopolitical and regional rivalries.
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