Armenia's sole purpose is to work on reinforcing and deepening our bilateral agenda. This is what Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told journalists today when asked if the meeting of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and members of the Sasna Tsrer Pan-Armenian Party wouldn’t create a negative background ahead of the upcoming visit of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to Armenia.

“Armenia has its domestic policy, and there are processes. Armenia is building interstate ties between Russia and Armenia, and its sole purpose is to work on reinforcing and deepening the bilateral agenda. We have no intention to make our domestic policy expressed in foreign policy,” he stated.

The foreign minister stressed that there are two policies — domestic and foreign. “In terms of foreign policy, the main message of the velvet revolution of last April-May was that there was no foreign interference in the velvet revolution. This shows what Armenia’s sovereignty means to us and how we are building our partnership and alliance with the Russian Federation and in all other directions. Armenia can’t be indifferent and sensitive to all of its partners, but it won’t do anything that will undermine its relations with those partners.”