As part of his official visit to India, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan gave an interview to WION, a leading Indian media outlet focusing on foreign policy issues.
In the interview, Minister Mirzoyan answered the questions on the agenda of Armenia-India bilateral cooperation, highlighting the areas with significant development potential, mutual support on international platforms, as well as on the efforts to establish peace in the South Caucasus, alongside with other key regional and international topics.
“Well, obviously, defense is one of the directions, one of the areas where we have very close cooperation with India and I suppose this cooperation will continuously be deepened. But what I would like to mention is that this cooperation and specifically trade of some specific equipment made in India and bought by Armenia is not intended to be used or however in any other sense, it’s not against any other third party. You probably are aware that Armenia has a peace agenda, we are engaged in peace negotiations with our eastern neighbor but also in general, we very much are focused on establishing peace and stability and normalizing our relations with our neighbors. So, we are in the middle of the process of reforming our defense sector, reforming our army, modernizing our army, and here the Indian experience in some specific areas as well as the equipment made in India are of interest to us. But again, this is for reforming the Armenian defense system, and there is no intention to use these systems against any other third party.
(…) Well, when we speak about cooperation between Armenia and India on international fora, I would say that here we have very close cooperation. We support each other’s candidacies. We very often and very frequently support each other’s initiatives on various international platforms.
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As for the normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, there I should say that we are very close, I mean Armenia and Azerbaijan, are very close to finalization of the draft of peace agreement between the two countries. And if we succeed to, well, first of all finalize the drafting and then sign the peace treaty, that would be one of the strongest pillars of the peace and stability in South Caucasus. And this comes also to complement some other tricks and negotiations and agreements that we already have with Azerbaijan. For instance, we just, several months ago, succeeded to sign and then ratify the regulation of the works of border commissions working on the delimitation of the border between two states.
(…) Well, we see these days, unfortunately, that all the mechanisms existing in the United Nations organization structure and also all the others even existing beyond the UN structures are not sufficient and are not guaranteeing us and helping us to prevent or manage or stop the conflicts going on here and there on the earth. So it is becoming more and more obvious that most probably the United Nations system needs some reforms. And we know the attitude and approach of India and we support this attitude”.
Full interview: https://www.mfa.am/…/int…/2025/03/11/Mirzoyan_WION/13107