Armenian PM’s press secretary accuses former president of serving foreign agenda

Armenian Prime Minister’s press secretary Nazeli Baghdasaryan said that on the eve of November 9, Armenia had been targeted by what she described as a “classic hybrid warfare scenario” — a coordinated, multipolar information attack against the country.

Baghdasaryan criticised former President Serzh Sargsyan, saying that his recent remarks were not grounded in political analysis but were instead a “repetition of old and discredited claims,” she wrote on Facebook, Caliber.Az reports. 

She argued that Sargsyan’s statements lacked factual basis and logical consistency, and were filled with manipulation.

The press secretary maintained that comparisons of Armenia’s armament levels between 2018 and 2020, along with evidence of army reforms and defence sector modernisation, had already disproved Sargsyan’s assertions. She noted that it had been impossible to close a thirty-year gap in just two and a half years, but accused the former president of avoiding self-reflection and instead attempting to project his own long-standing inaction onto others.

Baghdasaryan also suggested that Sargsyan’s public comments on the eve of November 9 were either the result of short-sightedness or an indication that he was acting in the interests of another party, asserting that there was “no third option.”

By Sabina Mammadli