At a juncture of plurilateral groupings, Armenia adopted policy of diversification – Deputy FM

Armenia is at a juncture of several plurilateral groupings and that’s why it has adopted a foreign policy of diversification, Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan has said. 

“We are at a time of exploration of a new international system, we see the old one is defunct, and the reason for that is that developing countries need more stake, they want more stake and say in global affairs, decisions, and the world needs to adapt to that,” Safaryan said at the Plurilateral Pathways - Restoring Order in a Fraying Multilateral System panel discussion during Yerevan Dialogue 2025.

“But in the long term I think that, if plurilateralism is effective, it is going to become multilateral again. Because the measure of effectiveness will be how much public good it delivers to this grouping, it will draw in more members and naturally become multilateral. But for the time being, as they say something is good than nothing. As far as mechanisms are concerned, I don’t see new mechanisms being there but the old ones like summit meetings, conventions, agreements, multilateral, plurilateral agreements, international banks, they have to deliver public good to make this grouping effective.  As far as Armenia is concerned, we are at a juncture, a crossroads of several such plurilateral groupings, that is why we have acquired a foreign policy of diversification, a balancing and balanced foreign policy, but as a foreign ministry, as a country, we are believers in multilateralism."