“If thus you close up the helplessness of the ambassador who cannot connect two words together in two languages or lift up this benchmark, this is another question.” “Today, I have to sound the names. On July 30, Hranush Hakobyan met with the Consul General in Aleppo, the Minister of Health Armen Muradyan met with the Swedish Ambassador, and the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Gabriel Ghazaryan met with Armenia’s Ambassador to the Netherlands. Refrain from telling the journalists about this,” Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan reprimanded the three ministers at the government sitting.
In Henaran media club, the Head of the Chair of Global Politics And International Relations at the Armenian-Russian University, also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Arman Navasardyan, expressed concern regarding this reprimand by the Prime Minister that closes up the information flow and is mistaken, “I am sorry, I do not want to say a harsh word, but this comes from if thus you close up the helplessness of the ambassador who is unable to connect two words in two languages and to speak or lift up this benchmark, it is another question. If you want to close up before the international community what’s going on in Armenia, that’s another question. But I consider it a bad policy.”
In the interview with Aravot.am, Mr. Navasardyan said that his concern is about the quality of the ambassadors, which the government is trying to hide. “The Swedish Ambassador is a brilliant diplomat, a brilliant ambassador in the Netherlands, the same is true for the Aleppo, all three of them are professional and strong diplomats. What I said does not refer to them at all. But why what they say should not become a public domain.” To our observation that perhaps it is not appropriate in terms of security, Arman Navasardyan disagreed, “This has nothing to do with the security. That’s all. Edward Nalbandyan has said and he says so. You see, the easiest thing is to say that this is confidential. I have worked in public diplomacy for 25 years, you may immediately close up that people would say, “Oh, only not to the determent to the state. It is not so. Very often, the curtain is lowered to veil the helplessness that they are unable to do.”
We clarified whether, in other words, it is for hiding the ambassadors’ helplessness rather than the government members’, Arman Navasardyan replied, “What cannot be said should not be said. But what should be said must be said. Pushing forward this-or-that stance of the foreign policy should be made public. Earlier, we were silent for a long time. I was the first representative of Armenia in the OSCE. There was a stupid stance, it was said from here, in Yerevan, do not talk. The Turk was attacking, do not talk, Azerbaijan … there was someone there called Liparityan, I told him, tell us ultimately how it should be, why am I sitting here? It is allegedly the right policy – to be silent. Do you understand, to keep pause? So it lasted until Azerbaijan was able to win the information war against us, this is the matter.”
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