"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"Yesterday, diplomatic representatives of European Union member states accredited in Armenia met with four high-ranking officials of Armenia. The question arises: why was it necessary for the same people to say the same thing in four different meetings on the same day? RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met the ambassadors. However, there was no information about this on the government's website, and only a reel was published on the Prime Minister's Facebook page, with no attached information about the content of the meeting.
NA Speaker Alen Simonyan received the same ambassadors in the National Assembly. In a separate meeting, the same EU ambassadors were also received by NA Deputy Speaker Ruben Rubinyan.
And in the RA Foreign Ministry, RA Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan met again with the same ambassadors. The official messages were "stingy" in this regard. "During the meeting, a number of issues related to the expanding bilateral agenda between Armenia and the European Union, as well as Armenia and the EU member states, the developments that took place within the framework of the visa liberalization process, in particular, the implementation of the RA-EU visa liberalization action plan in the shortest possible time frame, were discussed."
It can be said that the agenda of high-ranking officials of Armenia was almost entirely devoted to diplomatic contacts. These 4 meetings caused certain concerns in the public and expert circles.
In particular, there are views that such active diplomatic contacts may be related to the new regional tension and the fact that some of the provisions of the Peace Declaration, signed on August 8, are threatened as a result of Azerbaijan's actions. and the government had the task of sounding these alarms.
In this regard, "Zhoghovurd" daily contacted NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan to find out whether the multi-layered meetings held on the same day were due to the problems arising from the peace process. Rubinyan, however, denied the concerns circulating in the public sphere, noting that contacts with diplomatic representations are usual.
"There is nothing unusual or worrying here," said the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, emphasizing that the peace agenda remains the government's priority.
Details in today's issue of "Zhoghovurd" daily.
