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There is no clear explanation that would describe Armenia's current foreign policy, the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan said in an interview with three TV channels, answering the question of how he would describe today's foreign policy.

"I do not understand the content of today's foreign policy. To conduct the right foreign policy, we must understand what is happening in the world. I strongly doubt that the government today correctly assesses the global changes that are taking place in the world today. It is obvious that there are two processes today, one is the formation of a multipolar world, which is a fact today, and the role of powerful regional states in this region is significantly increasing in the process of formation of that multipolar world. It is obvious that there will be significant competition between Russia and Turkey in this region, and when there is no unipolar, dominant state, then, of course, these factors change. There is another process on which the attention is much less. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a unipolar world was formed under the leadership of the United States, and then economic globalization was linked to another, in theory, neo-globalism. Globalization is not only economic, but also the value system is being globalized, civilizational, cultural differences, so to speak, the Hollywoodization of the world, I even use the term - Sorosization of the world. This is not about Soros, it is figurative, it is broader,” he noted. "Huge sums of money have been spent on creating thousands of NGOs whose main goal was to advance this thesis of globalization," he added.

According to Kocharyan, now that trend has changed, and people consider that civilized and cultural diversity is the strength and value of this planet, for which we must fight.

"Today there is another trend in the world - to fight for national values, the leaders in this process are Russia and China, which have a great civilization potential, a very strong culture, in whose identity their culture and history play a very big role."

“Most of today's government came from NGOs that were formed from the second track of that globalization and pursued that policy, and now they are taking the whole country to where every one is fleeing from now on,” he said. "

And these disputes about national values, about the attitude towards the church, which are extremely important components of the identity of different nations, are trying to remove this from our culture, from our educational programs. Even with the results of all European elections, we see that the national forces are improving their positions."

He concluded by saying that if these two factors are not understood correctly, the direction of our foreign policy is unclear.

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