Interviews and press conferences
Robert Kocharyan cannot have any influence on Russian-Armenian relations; Interview with the SC Secretary.
14 / 08 / 2019
Secretary of the Security Council Mr. Armen Grigoryan spoke about Nikolai Patrushev's visit, Armenian-Russian relations, Russia's sale of weapons to Azerbaijan, the situation in Artsakh, the new national security strategy, Armenian humanitarian aid to Syria, and the Armenian-American partnership.
Tatul Hakobyan - A new national security strategy is being developed. So what's going to be new to this strategy, we can say, in the skeleton, given that Armenia's challenges have not changed, that is, our challenges are obviously, Azerbaijan, Turkey, so whatever?
Armen Grigoryan - When we were starting this process, I spoke at a press conference, what a great global changes have taken place in the last 12 years, but apart from the changes, there are things that haven't changed and remain clear.
These are the possible developments around Artsakh, as well as the creation of a situation where the problem of demography remains, because in the past there was a problem of demography, and now there is.
By the way, we have a lot of positive signals about demography, they are not satisfied anymore, so we are not happy with that, we say this is the end, but compared to 2015, if I am not mistaken, the number of people leaving the country has dropped 32 times, which is a very important impetus. there is a great opportunity to transform this into a positive one. The government is also developing a plan to promote birth rate.
These have remained: demography, war, increased cyber-security, for example, cyber security is very important because we have seen in the April war that there are issues to be solved, but cyber security is also an important area. In the last twelve years, the development of technology has brought us to a new situation, even to a new ministry, the Ministry of High Technology and Industry, and this was also the logic of the new situation. Also biosecurity: biosecurity is on the agenda, and this is also on the agenda in Armenian-Russian relations. This issue is being discussed.