“We were members of one team, supporting one and the same foreign policy, and I did not expect such processes to take place in this field,” the former Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanian stated, commenting on RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s foreign policy. According to him, the present foreign policy is antipodal to that pursued by the former authorities.

According to Oskanian, all of Armenia’s problems, whether political or economic ones, are in monopolism. “If we fail to create alternatives, we will not be able to resolve any problems. We amended the Constitution to create alternatives and counterbalances, bu the authorities usurped the power,” Oskanian said.

As regards foreign policy challenges, Oskanian stressed that the way out of any difficult situation can be founded provided internal consolidation exists in Armenia. Speaking of the present stage of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, he said: “Unfortunately, they in Europe believe that the issue of territories has been settled under a package agreement. So they are waiting for progress and for the Armenian-Turkish border to be reopened. We have to make them change their opinion,” Oskanian said.

T.P.