Head of Armenia`s Foreign Intelligence Service: there are threats to RA sovereignty and independence from several countries
ArmInfo.Head of Armenia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Kristine Grigoryan, refused to comment on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement that he knows "at least two CSTO countries that participated in preparing a war against Armenia."
At the same time, Grigoryan said that there are a number of threats to the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Armenia, which come from a number of countries. Despite numerous clarifying questions from journalists, she refused to name the countries, as well as whether Russia was included in the list of these countries.
At the same time, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service assured that reforms in the security sector of the Republic of Armenia are being carried out to neutralize these threats. Touching upon the risk of a military attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia, she stated that such a threat always exists as long as relations are properly normalized.
"However, these threats should not be exaggerated. We assess these risks on a daily basis and report them to the prime minister," Grigoryan told reporters.
Earlier, Prime Minister Pashinyan said in parliament that he knows "at least two CSTO countries that participated in the preparation of war" against Armenia. He did not specify which states he was talking about. In addition to Armenia, the Collective Security Treaty Organization includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. "These countries created an imitation of helping us, but I want to say that that war was not about Nagorno- Karabakh, it was about ensuring that Armenia not having any value," Pashinyan said during a speech at the National Assembly . In response, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, recommended that the Prime Minister of Armenia name the countries that allegedly engaged in "imitation assistance" to the country during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. "It would be quite logical to voice them if we are talking about such serious statements. But let's leave this to official Yerevan," Zakharova said.