{"id":41249,"date":"2010-08-16T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/16\/lukashenko-might-cancel-trip-to-armenia\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:28:00","slug":"lukashenko-might-cancel-trip-to-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/16\/lukashenko-might-cancel-trip-to-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko Might Cancel Trip to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\">The recent accusations exchanged between Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev might be the reason for Lukashenko cancelling his trip to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The reason for Lukashenko&#8217;s recent annoyance was Medvedev&#8217;s August 2 statement in which he said that the Belarusian leader, during the 2008 CSTO summit, &#8220;officially promised&#8221; to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Last week, Lukashenko said Belarus had not recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia because Russia refused support with the consequences of such a step. In response, the Kremlin promised to prove Lukashenko&#8217;s promise by publishing the transcript of the CSTO meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">In retaliation, Lukashenko might skip the August 20\u201321 informal CSTO summit in Yerevan, reports Kommersant and RIA Novosti news agencies.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian leader might skip the August 20\u201321 informal CSTO summit in Yerevan, due to recent altercations with&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[10606,10391,10711,10607,10710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}