{"id":539515,"date":"2026-05-05T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539515"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:55:03","slug":"belarusian-foreign-ministry-hands-protest-note-to-armenian-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-foreign-ministry-hands-protest-note-to-armenian-diplomat","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Hands Protest Note to Armenian Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On May 5, Armenia\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Belarus <b>Artur Sargsyan<\/b> was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note of protest.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA strong protest was lodged with the Armenian diplomat and a corresponding note was handed over in connection with recent unfriendly actions by the Armenian side,\u201d<\/em> the Belarusian Foreign Ministry\u2019s press service said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry did not specify what \u201cunfriendly actions\u201d it was referring to. On May 4, the European Political Community summit was held in Yerevan, attended by the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>. On May 3, Armenian National Assembly Speaker <b>Alen Simonyan<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/armenian-parliament-speaker-we-will-not-allow-ourselves-to-become-a-province-we-will-not-be-governed-like-belarus\">described Belarus as a province of Russia<\/a>. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry responded to those remarks, calling Simonyan\u2019s statement <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/an-exercise-in-offensive-labels-belarusian-foreign-ministry-responds-to-remarks-about-russian-province\">populism and an exercise in offensive labels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 5, Armenia\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Belarus Artur Sargsyan was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note of protest. \u201cA strong protest was lodged with the Armenian diplomat and a corresponding note was handed over in connection with recent unfriendly actions by the Armenian side,\u201d the Belarusian Foreign Ministry\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":507150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fa2efbad683.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Hands Protest Note to Armenian Diplomat"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-539515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}