section_path: Presidency/Foreign policy/Others
section_name: Others
paragraph_text: Others
  
  His policies have been praised by some other world leaders. In response to a question about Belarus's domestic policies, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said "We see here a model social state like the one we are beginning to create." In 2015, Lukashenko sought to improve trade relations between Belarus and Latin America.
  
  In March 2022, Australia sanctioned Lukashenko for giving " strategic support to Russia and its military forces " in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Also in 2022, he was blacklisted by New Zealand and Japan on the same grounds.
  
  In September 2023, Lukashenko, reacting to the 2023 North Korea–Russia summit, proposed a three-way cooperation pact with Russia and North Korea.
  
  At the December 2024 summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan engaged in a heated argument with Lukashenko during a livestream attended by other EEU leaders after Pashinyan refused Lukashenko's invitation to visit Belarus for the next EEU summit, citing Minsk's support for Azerbaijan.