Pashinyan highlights results of Armenia’s balanced foreign policy

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has credited his administration’s balanced and balancing foreign policy as one of the key tools that has enabled Armenia to stabilize its external environment.

“The government will not only continue its balanced and balancing foreign policy, but will also adopt it as a foreign policy strategy, the key objective of which is to prevent imbalances in foreign relations or to have a tool for balancing such imbalances,” he said in parliament during debates on the government’s 2026-2031 program.

“Regionalization plays a key role in this foreign policy, the goal of which is to make it not only possible but also comfortable for Armenia to live in its own environment without external assistance. In this regard, the further development of relations with Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Türkiye and the Republic of Azerbaijan is of important significance,” Pashinyan said.

He also addressed relations with the United States, noting that, in terms of extra-regional policy, Armenia-US relations are already on an upward trajectory.

“The Charter on Strategic Partnership between Armenia and the United States was signed only in January 2025, and look at what developments have taken place during this period. I remember that last September, exactly one year ago, in this hall I was forced to figuratively justify myself for having signed, on August 8, a memorandum of understanding with President Trump on an innovation partnership in the fields of artificial intelligence and semiconductors, which, according to claims made at the time by some opposition MPs present in this hall, was a document that said and meant nothing.

“One year after the signing of that figuratively ‘meaningless’ document, three supercomputing centers have opened in Armenia, one of them at Yerevan State University, while the other two are artificial intelligence factories. And the plans for cooperation between private investors from Armenia and the United States in this field are such that we may perhaps have to revisit our energy strategy, because the investment projects envisaged in the field of artificial intelligence will increase energy demand at an enormous pace,” the prime minister noted.

He also added that relations with the United States are now based on the Charter on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which was signed very recently, and that this represents the high point in relations between the two countries.

Pashinyan also highlighted that in recent years, strategic relations have been established with Georgia, France, China, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Croatia and Lithuania.

“Our relations with France are becoming increasingly multidimensional and multilayered, and we are already cooperating in areas in which we had never cooperated before. Our strategic partnership agenda with the European Union is being implemented at a visible pace. The law on launching the process of Armenia’s accession to the EU, adopted by the National Assembly last year, gave new momentum to this process. In May 2026, the 8th summit of the European Political Community was held in Yerevan, followed by the first Armenia-EU summit,” the prime minister said, highlighting in this regard the results of a balanced and balancing foreign policy.