YEREVAN. – A tiny, defenseless and fragile country like Armenia cannot speak to the world with the language of “either, or,” or “and, and.”  

Opposition politician Gurgen Yeghiazaryan noted the aforesaid during a press conference on Thursday. 

Yeghiazaryan said if President Serzh Sargsyan had been elected with fair and transparent elections, he could have spoken with “either, or,” or “and, and.”      

“[Russian President Vladimir] Putin went to Azerbaijan thirteen years later, and under the conditions when Armenian-Azerbaijani relations are tense,” he noted. 

“Unfortunately, we [i.e., Armenia] had disgraceful sports diplomacy, in the form of a football diplomacy, and disgraceful foreign policy,” Yeghiazaryan argued.      

In turn ruling Republican Party of Armenia board member Lernik Aleksanyan noted that he considers it very natural that the Russian president had to be in Azerbaijan ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections in that country.

“They were quite restrained economic conditions, in which we see nothing unusual; this is Russian policy in the South Caucasus,” Aleksanyan argued. 

He added that people need to know that Russia has interests in the South Caucasus.