Lukashenko has been shunned in the West since a 1996 referendum which he used to dissolve a parliament with a vocal opposition. The Council of Europe wields little power but considerable moral authority in eastern Europe.
"It is wild logic...our parliament should stop its trips and crawling on its knees in this assembly," Lukashenko told reporters, referring to trips by delegations to Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly sessions.
"By not paying (membership) fees, we save several thousand dollars for medicines for our people," he said, after meeting Askar Akayev, president of the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan.
He said Belarus would cooperate only with those who sought good relations with Minsk.
Lukashenko, who is seeking re-election later this year, raised prospects last November of asking election observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to leave the country.
He said the observers would not be required in the election, expected in September.
The OSCE and the European Union sent only low-level teams of observers to a parliamentary election in Belarus last year and afterwards criticised the poll for not meeting international standards.
The United States also said it did not recognise the vote. The liberal and nationalist opposition boycotted the poll, but Lukashenko's allies were elected in all but a few urban districts.
The Council of Europe was founded in 1949 as a club of western European Democracies and expanded to 41 members in the 1990s after the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
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