Our relations should be very reliable, partner-like, and predictable, not as spontaneous as they are today, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said in response to the journalist’s remark that Armenian-Russian relations have worsened not only due to our fault but also because of the policy of the other side.
Archbishop Bagrat noted that they have many questions for the Russian side. However, there are bilateral legal contractual relationships, not unilateral ones, and they need to be regulated. “As regards developments in other directions, of course, our relations should develop without “antis”. We cannot develop relations based on conflict or opposition. The most important thing is that the core of all relations should be the Armenian agenda, Armenia’s interests, not simply based on this or that event but comprehensively planned, stable, with the reputation of a reliable partner—not just turning this way or that, north or south, east or west, but with a clear line, always having Armenia and the Armenian agenda at the core,” he said.
In response to the observation that many today refrain from joining and avoid coming to Republic Square because the movement has not announced its future actions and has not given the names of those that would form the interim government, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said that the question has both the right to exist and not to exist: “When we give people’s names, unfortunately, people simply become targeted. We do not even know whether thereby we will harm these people or help the movement. Today, our concern is Armenia, our life, our existence; this is an existential battle and struggle,” Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan noted.
According to him, if people see this as an existential struggle, they join without any excuse. “I am not talking about blindly following someone. When the time comes, according to our agenda and plans, we do not rule out the possibility of giving names either. Those names exist, we have talked to them; we have also met with many groups of experts in advance. From each group, individuals came up with various concepts, as well as names, and those names are considered,” he said.
