"Hraparak" newspaper wrote:
Years ago, the public relations department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was considered the most exemplary among similar departments of other ministries and structures. Information was provided to the mass media promptly, even written questions were answered within an hour, and the news section was updated daily. Today, the official website of the MFA is "the most sluggish" - it has not been updated for months. Even the appointments of ambassadors made in September are not yet on the MFA website. Just as they turned the MFA into a secondary structure, no one needs its website.
On November 4, by the decree of the President of RA, Hasmik Tolmajyan was recalled from the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of RA to the Republic of France, being appointed permanent representative of RA at the UN office in Geneva and other international organizations.
On the MFA website, it is still November 3, and the RA ambassador to France is still Ms. Hasmik Tolmajyan, and the permanent representative of RA at the UN office is still Mr. Andranik Hovhannisyan. Mr. Andranik Khachatryan, according to the website of the Foreign Ministry, is still sitting in Strasbourg as the permanent representative of the Council of Europe. In fact, the decree to recall Andranik Khachatryan from this position was signed on October 25, and Armen Papikyan was appointed to that position, who until that time was in Austria and Slovakia. was the ambassador and the permanent representative of RA in the OSCE and other international organizations. But, according to the MFA website, Armen Papikyan is still the RA ambassador to Austria. And Andranik Hovhannisyan, who has been RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria since October 25 and is sitting in Vienna, according to the MFA website, is still in Geneva and serves as RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation and RA permanent representative in international organizations.
According to the website of the MFA, the RA ambassador to Iran is still Arsen Avagyan, not Grigor Hakobyan, who was appointed on October 30, and in Bulgaria, according to the website of the MFA, Armen Yedigaryan is still in office, not Tsovinar Hambardzumyan, who has been in office since October 24. October 24- Armenia also had new ambassadors in Egypt and Italy. Armen Sargsyan went to Cairo as RA ambassador to Egypt, and Vladimir Karapetyan went to Rome, being recalled from the post of ambassador to Ukraine. Hrachya Poladyan, who was the RA ambassador to Egypt since 2021, was also recalled. This change is also not reflected on the official website of the Foreign Ministry, and Poladyan continues to hold office in Cairo. These are still relatively new transfers, one can think that the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' press and public diplomacy department did not have time to upload them to the website, but what can we say about the personnel changes made 3 months ago, which are not on the website of the Ministry?
Thus: On September 6, RA Ambassador to China Vahe Gevorgyan was appointed RA Ambassador to the Republic of Mongolia as well, but according to the MFA website, this position is still vacant. On September 10, RA Ambassador to India Vahagn Afyan was jointly appointed Ambassador to Sri Lanka, residence in New Delhi. And since that day, RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia Sahak Sargsyan also holds the position of RA Ambassador to Djibouti. It is still summer on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is not known when September will come.
Moreover, Djibouti is not mentioned here at all, and there is no other country with the letter "J" except Jamaica on the MFA website. Meanwhile, the Republic of Armenia established diplomatic relations with this state located in the north-east of Africa 5 years ago, and on that occasion, on May 23, 2019, the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs even spread a message about the meeting of the permanent representatives of Armenia and Djibouti at the United Nations. and talked, referring to "the cooperation between the two countries on international platforms, particularly within the framework of the United Nations and La Francophonie, as well as the expansion of the partnership between Armenia and the countries of the African continent".
Although, what about Djibouti, even if the employees of Ararat Mirzoyan did not enter the name of the RA Ambassador to the Russian Federation Gurgen Arsenyan, who has been in office since August, and His Excellency Mr. Vagharshak Harutyunyan, according to them, is still in Moscow, sitting in the Armyansk Lane. And this is when the Russian Foreign Ministry posted the news of Arsenyan's appointment on its website just one day later. Suppose someone who does not know who the RA ambassador to Russia is, can open the MFA website, quickly look at the ambassador's name, go to Arsenyan and say: Hello, Mr. Vagharshak Harutyunyan. Department of Media and Public Diplomacy, departments responsible for information. , who are several in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, like to make their work difficult, to say that they are very busy. In fact, they "copy-paste" references to Armenia from foreign sources, distribute them to all embassies, and see if this was written about Armenia, and that was written, and with this they consider their work done. And this sloppy work later becomes a springboard to become an ambassador, consul, RA representative.
