Minsk Slams Armenian Acting Prime Minister For Following 'Street Democracy' Rules In CSTO

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry's press secretary, Anatoly Glaz, on Saturday slammed Armenian acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for following "street democracy" rules over the latter's recent comments on the situation regarding the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) secretary general post.

MINSK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 17th November, 2018) The Belarusian Foreign Ministry's press secretary, Anatoly Glaz, on Saturday slammed Armenian acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for following "street democracy" rules over the latter's recent comments on the situation regarding the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) secretary general post.

"Perhaps Pashinyan has not understood yet that the rules of the so-called street democracy are unacceptable in big politics. That's a pity, we hope that this will change with time," Glaz said in an interview with local TUT.BY online news outlet.

He suggested that Pashinyan considered himself as an "international prosecutor, authorized to punish and pardon."

Glaz added that Pashinyan could communicate like that with former CSTO secretary general, Yuri Khachaturov of Armenia, but he had to follow "quite distinct protocol and etiquette rules" applied in international relations, when communicating with others.

On November 2, Armenia prematurely recalled its representative at the post of the CSTO secretary general, Yuri Khachaturov, and his deputy Valery Semerikov became the organization's acting head. On November 8, the CSTO decided that a representative of Belarus should become the next secretary general, as "under the charter, alphabetically, Belarus goes after Armenia," Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

On Monday, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko told Azerbaijani ambassador to Belarus that he had three possible candidates for the CSTO secretary general position, and on Saturday Pashinyan slammed both Nazarbayev and Lukashenko for their comments on the situation, claiming that Lukashenko had no right to go into detail about the CSTO closed meeting, considering that Azerbaijan was not even a CSTO member.