Traditional contacts and partners were not always helpful – Armenian Deputy FM on foreign policy diversification
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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. Deputy FM Vahan Kostanyan has presented at a panel discussion during Manama Dialogue 2024 the Armenian foreign policy priorities, emphasizing that Yerevan is now focused on diversification.
“Our policy is very simple. It can have two dimensions. First, it's our relations with our neighbors, four neighbors that we have: Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan and Türkiye. And we do believe that we need to have at least neighborly relations with four of them. And the second dimension of our foreign policy priorities is diversification of our foreign policy. As we saw that our traditional contacts and partners were not always helpful. But also in general, the objective which is put nowadays for our foreign policy is a bit different. And to define it in a short way, it will be to protect our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, inviolability of our borders, but also democracy. And now we are trying to develop our foreign relations with our partners, bearing in mind this perspective,” Deputy FM Kostanyan said.