During an interview with the Media Center on December 23, High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Zareh Sinanyan, said, “Armenia is a safe country, regardless of everything. I understand that this ghost of war has greatly disturbed the feeling that as a country, it is the same, and Armenia is a very safe country for everyday life.”
At Sinanyan’s online press conference on December 23, Aravot asked him to clarify the reasons for his conviction, and by saying “regardless of everything” what he meant considering the statements and preconditions of the Turkish and Azerbaijani leaders. Are they regardless of our security environment, or of how since May, the Azerbaijani army has not left our territory and regularly provokes border incidents and captures and kills Armenian soldiers?
In response, Zareh Sinanyan said, “The question mentions some things that are known to everyone and about which I spoke in detail during the same interview. I will gladly answer again․ The point was that everyday life in Armenia is safe in itself. Let me bring a simple example. This morning I was reading that in the last 24 hours in the USA, a member of Congress was robbed on the street, their car was stolen, and the thief got away. In the last week, they are the second legislator who was simply robbed in the street. Now I mention this because that is what I compare it to. Living in Armenia is relatively safer than living in relatively more developed and secure countries.”
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He continued, “In the same interview, I said that the ghost of the war disturbed people’s sense of security. That is, one does not contradict the other. There are those two feelings. They are conflicting phenomena, but they are a part of our life. I was talking about that. As a father, I feel safe for my children when they go to school in the morning or to the mall and the movie theater with friends. Therefore, what I said was about that.”
Luiza Sukiasyan
