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Armenia has begun working actively and closely with the European Union to counter hybrid threats, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on 10 November.
He was speaking at a panel discussion titled “Standing Firm: Sovereignty in the Age of Hybrid Threats”, held as part of the ninth Paris Peace Forum.
Turning to disinformation, Pashinyan said transparency could be a very reliable tool for preventing it, as disinformation is much harder to push in open societies where information is accessible.
“Of course, transparency comes with many challenges and side effects. It is very easy to formulate the approach, but many problems arise when it is put into practice. As for cybersecurity more broadly, we need to build cybersecurity tools and systems and keep developing them, because it is clear that the tools used for disinformation and hybrid threats are evolving much faster than we expected,” Pashinyan stressed.
He said international cooperation was particularly important in this context because exchanging experience, as well as having capabilities and knowledge, was crucial.
“If something has already happened somewhere, it will certainly happen elsewhere too. We need to know about it in advance, and I think that would help us prepare for a range of similar situations. One idea would be to create a shared space where we could exchange information about what happened and discuss whether they managed to handle the situation and, if so, how. That could be useful for all participants and all countries,” he said.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and North Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova also took part in the discussion.