Yerevan July 20
Naira Badalyan. Armenia once again confirms that foreign policy is not expected to change. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference stated this on July 20, touching on the talks about what a number of Russian experts called the visit of the Armenian government delegation to Brussels during the July NATO summit a provocation.
According to Pashinyan, the government delegation paid a working visit to the Kingdom of Belgium on July 11-13 to attend the NATO summit itself, and at the meeting of the mission in Afghanistan "Resolute Support" in the format of the heads of state and government of the non-member countries of NATO Alliance, which was held as part of the summit of the North Atlantic alliance.
As the prime minister reminded, Armenia earlier repeatedly participated at the level of the head of state in the person of Serzh Sargsyan in the mission's work. Thus, this visit, as Nikol Pashinyan pointed out, does not mean a change in foreign policy. Only, Armenia does not refuse to fulfill the international obligations taken by the republic before the "velvet revolution," Pashinyan said.
During his visit to Brussels Nikol Pashinyan met with heads of EU structures. The Prime Minister also met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The NATO mission, called Resolute Support, began operating in Afghanistan on January 1, 2015, after the military stage of the US operation and its alliance allies has been completed. Armenia has been participating in the international security forces in Afghanistan since 2010. Currently, Armenian peacekeepers (131 servicemen), are carrying out the defense of the checkpoint of the Mike-Spann military base and the adjacent territory. All costs for the training and technical support of the contingent of Armenia's peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan were assumed by Germany.