Thursday, February 3 2022 14:26

ArmInfo. Russia and France are Armenia's most important political partners. This is evidenced by the results of a sociological study conducted by the American  International Republican Institute (IRI), which was conducted in  Armenia from November 22 to December 5, 2021. The level of  statistical error of the study, which covered 1512 respondents across  the country, is +/- 2.5%.

Thus, to the question of which two countries do you consider  Armenia's most important political partners, 57% of respondents  answered Russia, 50% - France, the United States is in the third  place - 38%, Iran - 23%, 5% of the respondents mentioned the European  Union and China respectively, Georgia - 3%, India - 1%, another 8% of  the citizens either mentioned another country or found it difficult  to answer.

When asked which 2 countries do you consider the most important  economic partners of Armenia, 61% of respondents answered Russia, 40%  - Iran, 29% - China, 16% - USA, 14% - France. Among the mentioned  countries are also: Georgia (8%), European Union (7%), India (2%),  Turkey (2%). 

When asked to name the two countries that are considered Armenia's  most important security partners, 64% of respondents answered Russia,  32% - France, 31% - Iran, 26% - USA, 5% - EU.

At the same time, the vast majority of respondents consider the  relations between Armenia and France to be good. In particular, 49%  of the respondents considered them very good, 43% - good, 7% - bad,  1% found it difficult to answer.

Iran is in second place: 22% of respondents considered our relations  very good, 58% - good, 13% - bad, 4% - very bad, another 4% found it  difficult to answer. At the same time, 15% of citizens considered the  relations between Armenia and the United States very good, 62%  consider their level to be good, 14%- bad, 6% - very bad, 3% found it  difficult to answer. China is in fourth place. 18% of respondents  considered our relations to be good, 57% - good, 9% - bad, 4% - very  bad, 12 - found it difficult to answer. The European Union is in  fifth place. 10% of respondents considered our relationship very  good, 59% - good, 18%- bad, 8% - very bad, 5% - found it difficult to  answer. Russia is also in the list of countries with which Armenia  has good relations - 15% of respondents considered our relations very  good, 49% - good, 21% - bad, 13% - very bad, 2% - found it difficult  to answer; Georgia - 6% of respondents considered our relations to be  very good, 52% - good, 27% - bad, 12% - very bad, 4% - found it  difficult to answer and Great Britain - 7% of respondents considered   our relations very good, 40% - good, 20% - bad, 15% - very bad, 17% -  found it difficult to answer.

It is noteworthy that 80% of respondents considered relations with  Turkey very bad, 11% bad, 4% consider them good, another 1% very  good, 3% found it difficult to answer.

Citizens of the Republic of Armenia also unanimously considered  relations with Azerbaijan bad - 90% consider them very bad, 4% bad,  2% good, another 1% very good, 3% found it difficult to answer.