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Seda Ghukasyan

Armenian Foreign Minister Urges People to Trust Government's Diplomatic Policies

Following a closed-door meeting today with members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committees on European Integration and Foreign Affairs, Armenian Foreign Minister refused to answer reporters’ questions as to what was discussed and issued a veiled threat to those seeking to discredit the effectiveness of the government's foreign diplomatic policy following the November 9 Karabakh ceasefire deal.

"The foreign ministry is one of the pillars of sovereignty and statehood. Being an apolitical structure, it has one goal - to protect the interests of the Armenian people, Armenia, through daily work. Any attempt to discredit that structure is a blow to the state, especially at this stage, when after the end of hostilities, all the burden and responsibility is transferred to diplomacy," Ayvazyan said, reading a prepared text.

Ayvazyan said that the current political situation in Armenia is because the country faced disproportionate forces in the recent war.

He emphasized that history has examples when diplomacy succeeded in extricating countries out of the most difficult of situations and urged people to trust and believe in Armenian diplomacy.

Bright Armenian MP Karen Simonyan, who attended the meeting, told Hetq that there are fatal problems in Armenian foreign policy that require urgent solutions and that minister's answers and positions were not clear enough to understand whether a solution is possible.

"I am convinced that the current government, represented by Nikol Pashinyan, will not be able to solve these problems," he said.

Simonyan said that everything depends on the country’s political leadership being able to give the right signals through which diplomats will be able to work.

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