On July 8, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan took part in the panel discussion “World Order out of Order: How to Stabilise World Politics?” within the framework of the Dubrovnik Forum.

 Minister Mirzoyan noted

“I can not restrict myself speaking about only what is going on in Armenia, because of the security dimension, it also supposes some topics, which are connected with what’s going on around Armenia, what’s going on in the South Caucasus. Since we are speaking about disorder, I should also make a couple of remarks on the external threats and challenges that Armenia is facing now. You are now speaking about world disorder and violation of international law, international rules. Well, we have been speaking about this since 2020, when the war of aggression initiated by Azerbaijan began in Nagorno-Karabakh. We have been speaking about this very loudly, but few countries in the world were listening to us and now everybody is facing a bigger problem. We have been speaking about our problem being a part of a larger problem, a larger process of violation of international order and now everybody is facing it.

We have had several invasions into the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and here I would like to express our appreciation that the European Union made a very quick, very rapid decision, which was, by the way, quite unusual, probably, for the EU. So, the EU made a very quick decision to send an observation mission to patrol, to observe the situation along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, our eastern neighbor. And the European observers are now there and they are doing their job.

This is a significant factor of stabilization on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. And we are thankful for that.”