“We will be presenting a pre-election plan that includes elements of security and foreign policy. That way, we will be able to inform citizens about our solutions and ideas,” Bright Armenia deputy Ani Samsonyan told reporters during a briefing in parliament regarding the approach the Bright Armenia party will be taking in the snap parliamentary elections regarding Armenia’s relations with Turkey.
“I think that we need to approach this issue in a very balanced and calm manner without primitive approaches and eliminating the approaches of Turkey being our enemy or not from our ideas. We have serious problems with our external and internal security, and today, we are not able to normalize our relations with friendly countries, let alone two rival countries that threaten us every day. I am against being guided by primitive approaches. We have opponents and a security problem. They are threatening our existence as an ethnicity, we have to build relations with them…” Ani Samsonyan added.
A reporter interrupted her by asking, “Do you think of Turkey in such a way?” Ani Samsonyan responded, “Naturally. Turkey and Azerbaijan both threaten us every day with their rhetoric. How can we speak about peace in these conditions?”
In response to the question of whether or not she considers Turkey to be the enemy, Ani Samsonyan said, “Naturally. If they are threatening to eradicate us, how can we have friendly relations with them? One more thing. Why are they forcing calls for peace upon us? They should force those calls upon people who are threatening to eradicate us.”
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