Fake letter to NATO leadership on behalf of Pashinyan circulated on social media

Panorama, Armenia
July 3 2019

Information security expert Samvel Martirosyan informs about a dissemination of a fake letter written on behalf of Armenian Prime Minister and addressed to NATO leadership. Martirosyan posted on Facebook the screenshot of the letter, adding the document is widely circulated on social media. “Apart from reasoned suspicions there are no specifics and evidence about the author of the letter,” Martirosyan said in a post, adding one possible version about the author of the document could be it had been done out of Armenia’s territory.

Martirosyan also pointed to the content of the letter and the issues raised in it, dabbing them as absurd and incredible . To note, the letter, allegedly written by Pashinyan expresses Armenia’s readiness for a closer cooperation with NATO and discusses an implementation of a plan ‘to withdraw troops from the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone.’

Panorama.am asked Spokesperson of PM Pashinyan Vladimir Karapetyan to comment on the letter, asking whether the press office of the Prime Minister plans to issue official clarification over the document and reject it.

“I do not consider it appropriate for now [to comment on] as it is evident for all the document is nothing but absurdity. Commenting on absurdity is not reasonable,” Karapetyan said.