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Four EAEU leaders don’t want Armenia to leave association — Lukashenko

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 159 words
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What to know about Four EAEU leaders don’t want Armenia to leave association — Lukashenko

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and other EAEU leaders expressed their desire for Armenia to remain in the Eurasian Economic Union. They also voiced support for a referendum in Armenia to decide between membership in the EAEU or the European Union.

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What happened

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that neither he nor the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Vladimir Putin, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Sadyr Japarov, want Armenia to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Why it matters

"All of us stated: we don’t want Armenia to leave our Eurasian Union," the BelTA news agency quoted him as saying.

Common ground

"But if the people make this decision and agree to withdraw from the union they are a member of and join the European Union some time in the future, we cannot go against the will of the Armenian people." In a joint statement after the EAEU summit in Astana,…

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and other EAEU leaders expressed their desire for Armenia to remain in the Eurasian Economic Union. They also voiced support for a referendum in Armenia to decide between membership in the EAEU or the European Union.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “According to Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov, the statement has been handed over to Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan.”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov informed journalists that the document agreed at the Astana summit was handed over to Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Russian: Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации, МИД России, romanized: Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Rossiiskoi Feder…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russ…
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Claim 2: “Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that neither he nor the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Vladimir Putin, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Sadyr Japarov, want Armenia to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).”
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The claim is corroborated by multiple web search results describing a joint declaration by the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan regarding Armenia's status in the EAEU, specifically mentioning an ultimatum and a joint declaration published on the Kremlin website.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician and statesman who has been the first and onl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Union State is a supranational union consisting of Belarus and Russia, with the stated aim of deepening the relationship between the two states through integration in economic and defence policy. …
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Claim 3: “In a joint statement after the EAEU summit in Astana, the Russian, Belarusian, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz leaders voices support for the idea of organizing a referendum in Armenia on either joining the European Union or remaining a member of the EAEU.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan issued a joint statement/ultimatum to Armenia involving a referendum on joining the EU versus remaining in the EAEU.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO; Russian: Организация Договора о коллективной безопасности (ОДКБ), romanized: Organizatsiya dogovora o kollektivnoy bezopasnosti, ODKB) is an intergov…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Union (Russian: Таможенный союз Евразийского экономического союза) or EAEU Customs Union (Russian: Таможенный союз ЕАЭС) is a customs union of 5 post-Soviet …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Union_of_the_Eurasian_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eurasian Economic Space or Single Economic Space is a single market that provides for the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital within the Eurasian Economic Union. The Single Econo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Economic_Space_of_the_E…
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