Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan acknowledged the change in the country’s foreign policy vectors, clarifying that this was not due to the democratic choice of Yerevan, but for other reasons.
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During an event in Yerevan dedicated to the Armenian government’s regional transport project “Crossroads of the World”, Grigoryan was asked whether he considered it possible to sign a peace treaty between a democratic and an autocratic country.
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“Democracy is our internal policy, relating to the organization of our daily life. It is not part of our foreign policy. When we leave Armenia, we leave democracy at home. When we negotiate, we do not compare democracy and autocracy. We speak from realistic positions and therefore We believe that peace is possible,” Grigoryan said.
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In this context, he noted that after the change of power in 2018, the Armenian government stated that what happened concerned internal life and was not organized from the outside.
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“The people of Armenia decided to live as they want, and this will always remain our internal issue and will not affect our foreign policy. Our foreign policy vectors and interests have changed for other reasons, and not because of democracy,” the Secretary of the Security Council said.
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He added that in recent years, democracy has been an element of internal life, influencing relations with other countries only positively and not negatively.
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Earlier, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that he considered it inappropriate to talk about changing the country’s foreign policy vector, since, according to him, this vector has always been aimed at the state’s own interests.
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The Crossroads of the World project provides for the establishment of transport and other communications in the South Caucasus region between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia.
