On December 7, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vahan Kostanyan participated in a panel discussion at international forum “Manama Dialogue”.

In response to the question concerning the South Caucasus Vahan Kostanyan noted: "And coming to the last but not least question about our region. I'm not here to maybe present the policies of Iran, Russia or Türkiye. I can present our policy. And our policy is very simple. It can have two dimensions. First, it's our relations with our neighbors, four neighbors that we have: Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan and Türkiye. We believe that we need to have at least neighborly relations with four of them. And the second dimension of our foreign policy priorities is diversification of our foreign policy. As we saw with our traditional contacts and partners, we're not always helpful.

But also in general, the objective which is put nowadays for our foreign policy is a bit different. And to define it in a short way, it will be to protect our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, inviolability of our borders, but also democracy. And now we are trying to develop our foreign relations with our partners, bearing in mind this perspective."