Direct or indirect calls to review traditional for Armenia geopolitical priorities during this not calm period are really dangerous even if not brought to reality, Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan said at the Lazarev Club plenary session today in Yerevan.
“The Armenian-Russian relations need special care. IT and social networks create big opportunities for manipulating public moods, sow doubts and distrust among the people which will result in the erosion of our decades-long ties,” Kocharyan said.
He stressed that each friendship demands efforts, time, energy and emotions.
“Friendship has inertia but it cannot develop and be stable on its basis only. Friendship stops when concerns about the sincerity appear and when one of the parties want to get more than give. It is very difficult to be friend with constant beggars. Such relations are irritating,” Kocharyan said.
He stressed that friendly relations between countries is not just coincidence of interests it is a fusion of state interests and deep penetration of human factor in the relations of societies.
“I cannot find any other example of such relations like in case of Armenia and Russia. We have inherited them and we must exert efforts every day to maintain and develop them,” Kocharyan stated.
