Pashinyan rules out any foreign intervention in Armenia’s revolution

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan assesses unacceptable placing the revolution in Armenia among the so-called “colour revolutions”, ARMENPRESS reports Pashinyan said in an interview with Deutsche Welle Russian service.

“It’s unacceptable, since there was no geopolitical context in or revolution, there was no foreign actor that could participate or be involved in our domestic political process. It’s very important for understanding what’s going on in our country. I understand that it’s very easy to group the conflicts or processes, but if we want to really understand the processes in a give place, we should be very attentive towards the details and differences”, Nikol Pashinyan said.

The Armenian PM emphasized that the developments that took place in Armenia in April-May 2018 were totally domestically driven processes. “No foreign actor had the opportunity to be involved in our domestic processes. During those days, like now, the Armenian people were and remain consolidated. We held democratic elections. By the way, it’s not only my assessment, it’s the assessment of the international community”, Pashinyan said, adding that the recent parliamentary elections of Armenia were the only that were not appealed at the Constitutional court. According to him, those details are of key importance for particularly making predictions for the future.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan