{"id":39887,"date":"2024-12-26T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-altercation-erupts-at-a-high-level-meeting-of-a-russia-dominated-economic-union\/26\/12\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:14:58","slug":"an-altercation-erupts-at-a-high-level-meeting-of-a-russia-dominated-economic-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-altercation-erupts-at-a-high-level-meeting-of-a-russia-dominated-economic-union\/26\/12\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"An altercation erupts at a high-level meeting of a Russia-dominated economic union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 A tightly-scripted meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of several ex-Soviet nations briefly went awry Thursday when two leaders engaged in bickering during a live broadcast of the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vladimir Putin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and other heads of states attended the meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who has increasingly sought to phase down his country&#8217;s ties with Moscow and forge closer relations with the West, joined the meeting via video link after canceling his trip following a positive test for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The carefully choreographed session at a resort near St. Petersburg veered off script when Belarusian President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/alexander-lukashenko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alexander Lukashenko;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>, whose country was taking the rotating chairmanship in the economic grouping from Armenia, urged Pashinyan to visit Belarus for the union&#8217;s next meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Pashinyan responded that he plans to attend the Belarus meeting via video call, after which Lukashenko pressed for an explanation and even offered to send a plane to fly the Armenian delegation to the Belarusian capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Pashinyan then pointed to his earlier decision to freeze high-level visits to Belarus over Lukashenko&#8217;s support for Armenia&#8217;s rival, Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cI don&#8217;t think this is the right format for discussing these issues,&#8221; Pashinyan added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">But Lukashenko kept arguing and Pashinyan snapped back. Putin, who sat next to Lukashenko, and other leaders watched the altercation in stony silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The Eurasian Economic Union was formed a decade ago to encourage stronger business ties and facilitate trade between its members, but it has been marred by economic and other dispoutes between members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/altercation-erupts-high-level-meeting-175847334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) &mdash; A tightly-scripted meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of several ex-Soviet nations briefly went awry Thursday when two leaders<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-altercation-erupts-at-a-high-level-meeting-of-a-russia-dominated-economic-union\/26\/12\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}