Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan: Having the interests of Armenia at the core, we must have stable, understandable and long-term relations with the world

Today, Armenia has nothing to say with regard to Armenian-Azerbaijani relations: no willingness for compromise, no grounds for recognizing territorial integrity. Thus, negotiations, as such, do not exist, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan told Silvia Boltuc from Special Eurasia. 

According to him, their desire and plan is for the talks to return to a real negotiation process and table. 

In response to the question as to whether Galstanyan would continue Pashinyan’s line of distancing Armenia from Russia, he noted that he does not think this government aims to change a political line.

“What we can see are spontaneous, event-driven relations. Our goal and plan is to have stable and reliable, long-term, positive, and constructive relations in all directions, with all partners,” Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said. 

He noted that there is an essential element in the Armenian agenda: Everything must advance the interests of Armenia and the Armenian people.

“We cannot overlook the Diaspora. We have compatriots spread across all the countries of the world, whose presence there already suggests that all these states are the friends of Armenia. Therefore, unlike the present government, whose policy with regard to the world is unclear, our plan, goal, and agenda are to have reliable, stable, understandable and long-term relations, based on mutual understanding, with Armenia’s interests and the Armenian agenda at the core,” he said.