This is an extremely subtle and delicate issue for Armenia. This is what Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told journalists at the National Assembly today as he commented on the fact that Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan will not be present at the upcoming events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the launch of WWII in Poland on September 1.

According to him, everyone knows what contributions Armenia has made to the victory in WWII as a part of the former USSR and the Soviet Armed Forces. “Armenia has some reservations in regard to the discussions on this matter on different platforms. Our forefathers fought in the war, we had marshals, generals and Heroes of the USSR. We suffered a tremendous amount of casualties, and it is natural that this topic is a highly sensitive topic for us,” the minister emphasized.