ArmInfo. "My personal position coincides literally with the position of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, and I have nothing to add to this," Armenian First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in an interview with journalists on August 2, commenting on Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement on the policy authorities of the republic in relation to their political predecessors.
Touching upon the assessments of the Republican Party of Armenia that Lavrov's statement is a warning signal, predicting dangerous consequences, Ararat Mirzoyan stated: "It has been repeatedly proved that the assessments of the situation on the part of the RPA are, in the main, far from objectivity."
To recall, July 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that the events in Armenia are contrary to the statements of the new leadership of the country about refusing to pursue its political predecessors. "Over the past few days, we have several times brought this concern to the Armenian leadership," the minister added. "We expect that the situation will nevertheless follow a constructive path." According to him, in Moscow during the political crisis in Armenia in May this year "with great satisfaction noted that as a result the solution to this crisis was found on the basis of a compromise with the participation of all leading parties." "We hoped that, based on this result, all political forces, first of all the new leadership of Armenia, the new authorities, will continue to promote unifying approaches, will strengthen the national accord," Lavrov said. "But the events of recent days clearly violate such a positive attitude, run counter to the recent statements by the new leadership of Armenia that it has no intention to organize the persecution of its predecessors for political reasons," he concluded.
The day before, responding to ArmInfo's request to comment on the statement by the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Tigran Balayan, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said that Armenia follows international reactions to the internal processes in Armenia, conditioned by the formation of a rule of law and independent justice, the fight against corruption, which are the domestic political priorities of the government "These processes are not interconnected with Armenia's foreign policy and should not cause discrepancies. In this regard, we reaffirm that our foreign policy priorities, which are clearly enshrined in the government program approved by the parliament, are aimed at further strengthening and deepening the Armenian-Russian allied relations, enhancing the effectiveness of cooperation within the CSTO and the EAEU. We strictly follow the announced course, "Balayan summed up.