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you can. see. it take a step and reject said. that was the running cry the hundreds of thousands of all mediums in april and may. we took to the streets and forced the resignation of media's president turned prime minister said she saw siya use of those phones in flint later his grueling republican policy stepped down from power clearing the way for the leader of the opposition. to be the new government stays told that if you do not accept that it gets much requirements of the states and goodbye.

the velvet revolution so they could be gone by that was a remarkable turning point for the caucasus nation. and he now heads it into rivet ministration assaults to capitalize on widespread public supports bring about sweeping reforms. he'd he has promised to tame the oligarchs monopolizing all medias politics and the economy you elections and transform media means when to pull democracy. at the same time he must play a delicate balancing act geopolitically to russia. the west. moscow provides economic and military support to our media which is being geographically isolated by both turkey and does it by john. and renia it's a war over the new goal though kyra but region without the by john in the one nine

hundred ninety s. . and as a by john wants it's internationally recognized territory but the conflict could wreak nights and. i'm robin first year walker in i've come to the armenian capital to meet the man whose mass protest movement brought down an entrenched corrupt elite but he now faces the challenges from within his country and the old today i mean he is prime minister. talks to al-jazeera. prime minister of armenia thank you for talking to al-jazeera i was here without easier for those incredible few weeks in april and may of this year when the armenian people rose up in their hundreds of thousands and brought down the previous government this was something many people believed was impossible and

it was done without a shot being fired what have you achieved so far your most important thing that we changed already it's the best segments of the day all role of the people of any citizen it is most important change that we have done. because before evolution the most part of bottoming a citizens they considered that they didn't. decided anything that nothing to pant from their position from his position but maybe we make our citizens believe that their position their voice is more important factor in our political list for

life and does most important change that we have already done but you've still got to deliver on those important reforms people want changes they want functioning utilities they want public services they want a reformed police service they want jobs how are you going to deliver this to a public that is hungry for change and based on the history there isn't an awful lot of patience of the revolution's people want it yesterday they don't have an awful lot of patience to wait around you need to implement those changes quickly we are now in process of the involvement new people to the armenian economy we are going to guarantee the equality and now we can't say that all people. all citizen in armenia are equal before the law we we are going

to make economic reforms to liberalize our economy to make it more attractive for foreign investor and for domestic investor how we are going to do that we are going to guarantee. security of any investment we are going to create infrastructure wheat of high quality and we are going to make people believe and act in economy and create their own businesses and to be to be. the really to have a real opportunity to become successful and make our

country more successful you don't have a huge amount of foreign policy experience you're not a military man and yet your country has this conflict ongoing with its neighbor azerbaijan and your team of ministers even younger than yourself and you are just forty three years old so are you qualified for this position and for this job you know when in our parliament. republican deputies tried to show that. i'm not enough experienced to to be prime minister i recalled the example of nesa mandela who was just a prisoner. for twenty six years before became president of the south african republic saw just.

said that i'm was in politics in armenia from the nine hundred ninety one and i was the journalist that. brought so many articles on military. officials on state officials about the political activity and that was a huge university and hooch experience for being politician for being minister for being. prime minister for being president because i forward all this people in i brought many articles what was right in their actions and what wasn't

right in their action right now you're an interim government you need elections to have legitimacy when are those going to happen when you can have those elections if our political situation will stay saved as we have now i think we will have. elections snap elections. next year ok but initially you wanted snap elections and those are exactly snap elections it's a it's a year on from this revolution that's going to for a straight people isn't it you need those elections sooner not years but are important to go to have a really democratic. turns parliament and free elections and the problem is that for other political activists it for certain

expected to have such political changes and for there it is it is an expected situation and if we'll have a snap election now eight we voted to be not very equal situation for other political actors we don't want to. have an equal political field and we want to give our political opponent to our political opponents a time for preparing for that elections it's been consistently maintained that this revolution was not a color revolution it was not manipulated or influenced by political forces outside

the country but in order to carry out the reforms and changes that you need you are going to need significant financial assistance from the likes of the european union and the united states we hope to have that financial. assistance not only from the united states european union but from russia as well you have been to russia twice in the last two months as far as i know you've been to sochi and moscow you've met with let me putin you've just got back from brussels how. are you going to balance that relationship between russia and the west it is a difficult balancing act to maintain you have to agree that i don't think that there is a need to balance this relationship we are going to increase the quality of our relations not only with russia but also with the european union with united

states with iran with the with china with india etc we ga and that we are going to build that relationship on the bears or of the national interests of armenia nevertheless you depend on russia strategically and economically but you are yourself in favor of openness in favor of transparency democracy and human rights these a european values how do you stay on the right side of them a putin you know we saw. within our revolution that our partners i mean russia europe in hewing and. united states there are all international partners they respect

how independence and also lengthy and they didn't interfere to our domestic affairs just a few days ago you had russian military to drills taking place. they have a military presence in armenia those drills were taking place armenian people were upset very upset by what happened it's a very difficult. situation to be in where support for russia is important to us i said strategically but at the same. russia russian military representatives. i have already apologise for that incident and i think it's an acceptable incident and i have announced that it was

a provocation against the armenian russian relationship and it was provocation against the armenian independence of armenia salinity of armenia and now there is investigation that started it and i think that who is guilty for that incident should be punished but this is an example of the ways in which it can be seen that moscow can use its influence on armenia when it needs to it has gazprom here we're not policing the energy market it guarantee to a security between armenia you know as a by job but if the situation is that many can trees all around the war they have tools to impact to influence on the other countries if we want to

say absolutely there is no absolute independence for any country because all contracts and international community now they are connected. where you very closely and i mean in particular is in a very yes civil scituate yeah yeah most of my will is you know yes we have the we are in difficult situation and we are going to overcome this difficult situation and huge popular support from people that our government has we are going to use that support for our common in this situation to manage the situation we are going to increase the quality of our relation with russia with that he will paint a union with united states well let's talk about your relationships with your

immediate neighbors which perhaps is of even more critical importance turkey and azerbaijan armenia fought a war over the territory of nagorno-karabakh in the ninety's that conflict continues to this day albeit a frozen conflict as it's often referred to what are you doing to bring peace to this region between azerbaijan and armenia the first thing you did was go to going to karabakh after becoming elected as prime minister perhaps that sent the right signal to armenians did it send the right signal to bark as any democracy we are devoted to exclusively peaceful solution for. conflict and it's really important because i'm sure that democracy. is more important factor to create peace in our region because i am sure that there is not any democracy

that is willing. to. start a war. that is willing to use force for solution of any problems people are concerned as a boy john has seized some form of territory and knock each other on that important area between you and i it's serious and it's it's it's wrong information if there's been all the information they're talking water talk it's a yes it's received language yes there it is another. topic and i'm sure that after white. john became more aggressive after i mean you know revolution because you know that

that we have. big success making armenia democratic country in fighting corruption. to create a level playing field to fight more no police and i think that. has some fears that as a by johnny people care in be inspired from our main your allusion in to try. to create to make changes simular to changes in azerbaijan and saw i think the increase of the aggressive retore by the azerbaijani government is connected with this situation and i'm sure that as a by journey government is trying to distract the attention

of his own people from their domestic troubles problem to the now born of problem and so that's why i'm saying that any aggressive move against armenia it's aggressive move against democracy in our region at the same time what are you going to do to bring lasting peace here what are you prepared to give us by john back in exchange for last in peace you know we are ready for peace negotiations and that i i want to make clear that point and time are ready for negotiations wheat president or was a by john. lear ready to meet him yes of course you've invited him to meet with you your. problem is that we have negotiation for mine.

and donald trump doesn't mind breaking negotiations for months he's met with the president and you know you're a real no i don't think it's a leader right right to do to break something. when you aren't sure that you will be able to create something better and. you know that there is a negotiation for mud. it's been in place for many years but nothing has come out of this format is very important for keeping peace and for creating real a real opportunity for a really peaceful settlement of now go knock on about conflict why because.

three. werry important and very influential countries are involved in d. or a c. ms group chair for money that's russia that's france and that's united states and i think that this four month is able to solve this conflict peacefully if armenian government and as a journey government will have political will for peaceful solution i can assure you and all international community that as any democratic government we have a real deal and a real desire to solve this conflict peacefully and we are ready for negotiation but i want to insist that we aren't going.

to make anything in that atmosphere of intimidation you know it's really important to create. atmosphere of peace in our region you can't hear any hate speech in armenia connected with azerbaijan and connected with azerbaijan the people but unfortunately every day we can hear hate speech from us that are by john to what armenia and vote is really strange and will be dangerous we can heard that speech from even personally from the president of. with regards to turkey regardless of nagorno-karabakh in those or by john how are you going to get the borders reopened with turkey proper relations reestablished

with ankara you know the problem is that it isn't armenia that cool or the border with turkey in fact it's talking that clause border with army in fact that border is open from the armenian side and it's talking should make decision. on opening the border. and our main year is ready to establish diplomatic relations with torquey without precondition. and without any precondition and that's that should make a decision and. with all of this happening at the moment with all of the international. infighting that's going on the european union and the united states

do not have a good relationship at the moment liberal democracies in the west are in crisis with the rise of the far right russia and the united states have a troubled relationship though donald trump and vladimir putin seem to be getting along just fine how do you see the the white house particular led by donald trump in terms of its impact on what happens to armenia and the armenian context do you look at what's happening in europe in the united states and think how does this impact armenia here of course. we are concerned really much. on a regional situation on deal last development around iran because iran is our close neighbor and the whole partner and the we hope that

all this issues and all this disagreement will be solved toward the peace and through the negotiation and armenia is of course all ready to support this process is and we are ready to be constructive. in making our region more prosperity and peaceful and the more secure. than prime minister of amin thank you for talking to us is it thank. you.

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