Mary Harutyunyan shared excerpts from Serzh Sargsyan's speeches at the Munich Security Policy Conference in 2009 and 2018 on her Facebook page, writing:
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"If we turn the pages of history, it will become obvious that the superpowers and empires have historically had serious ambitions to establish their dominance over this part of the earth. This is the case today. The modern South Caucasus is one of the regions where there are insurmountable ones seeming dividers, where the internationally recognized political map of states differs from reality, where stability is extremely vulnerable, and the re-establishment of peace requires joint and a huge amount of targeted work.
Dear colleagues,
We often talk about the questions "what will happen", "how will it develop", "what will happen, how to manage?", but in fact, I think it is also correct to talk about how the last years What lessons have we learned from the developments, the last year's bloody events and the international financial and economic crisis?
...This is a region with its ancient culture, rich history and societies with new aspirations. Whatever the geopolitics in our region, it must include the "culture" component, so to speak, when bombs explode in Ossetia, Lebanon, Iraq, In Israel or anywhere in the world, I feel pain for several reasons. firstly as a person who has seen the war, who knows its true devastation, secondly, as the President of Armenia, realizing that it is not in the interests of my country anyway, but I also have many nervous days as an Armenian, realizing that wherever they explode bombs, Armenians live on both sides of the firing line.
In such cases, the human factor cannot help but prevail in my decisions. But as a representative of Armenians around the world, I know well what the use of the "human factor" means "for" purposes, I know its power not from analyzes, but from the history of my own people, from my daily activities. :
President Serzh Sargsyan,
07.02.2009,
From a speech at the Munich Security Policy Conference
"...I am sure that for Armenia and many other countries, being at the intersection of the interests of major geopolitical centers is both a challenge and an opportunity. When these centers are in conflict, the interests of small states are sometimes neglected. Therefore, our task is always to turn challenges into opportunities through cooperation and alignment of interests."
President Serzh Sargsyan,
17.02.2018
From a speech at the Munich Security Policy Conference
