Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has reiterated Armenia’s willingness to fully normalize relations with Türkiye and Azerbaijan, emphasizing that doing so would lead to the completion of his administration’s “balanced and balancing” foreign policy and open new opportunities for the country.
I am convinced that we will achieve the goal of normalizing relations with Azerbaijan and Türkiye, which means that the balanced and balancing foreign policy will reach its completion, creating new opportunities for Armenia to become a state of a new quality,” he said in a video posted on social media, explaining his administration’s foreign policy.
According to the Prime Minister, the absence of relations with Türkiye itself indicates an imbalance in foreign relations.
“If we do not have relations with Türkiye, it means that one side of that scale is empty. It means that some relations are imbalanced and have gone out of balance,” Pashinyan said.
In order to restore that balance, he said, Armenia needs to have relations not only with Türkiye and Azerbaijan, but with all countries.
This is not a matter of whim; rather, we need to have relations with Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and all states in general,” the Prime Minister stressed.
Pashinyan said that a state is an actor in international relations and operates in the international system through its ability to maintain balance.
