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popular protests delivered a so—called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed in yerevanambitious talk of reform. my guess is the foreign minister in that government, zohrab mnatsa ka nyan. is armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration? zohrab mnatsakanyan, zohrab mnatsa ka nyan, welcome zohrab mnatsakanyan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. last year saw major political upheaval in armenia, the so—called velvet revolution, after which your government claimed you were working for a new armenia but sceptics would say it looks very much like the old armenia. how is it different? why would they say that? for example, you were an official under previous regime, you are not a new broom at all. i made a choice to move from a diplomatic career to a political one. i took up the responsibility to share with the government and this is a major change. the government has received a huge mandate from the people as a result of the revolution. the government has reacted to those popular demands and received a strong mandate to deliver the change and we have demons

join this process and we discussed these prospects just recently on the sidelines of the summit in yerevan in armenia. and with one more question if i may mr president russia asserting plays a role in the gulf region and your intelligence agencies have a huge capacity it is hard to believe that russia does not know what really happened to those oil facilities is it possible. bits of this you've been using believe it or not we do not know i asked the heads of the foreign intelligence service and the ministry of defense the very next day we do not know i will refrain from any further comments as to who should know in order not to hurt anyone's feelings but i can say that we do not have any definitive information regarding the incident so that is that. can we move to syria now mr president you recently announced a suspension of large scale combat operations in syria and everyone is now hopeful that political settlement will work you spoke about it at the valdai forum here in russia you said that syria could become a good example of how such conflicts must be approached and settled do you thin

yerevan saeed is a kurdish affairs analyst at the middle east research institute.what president trump was just saying? the kurdish people are very disappointed in this statement. this happened while turkey invaded the kurdish held territory in syria and displaced 400,000 people, killed and wounded hundreds of people, and there are reports of war crimes committed by turkish forces, and these come from just yesterday by these come from just yesterday by the us special envoy to syria. so it's really quite disappointing to hear this from president trump. what do you make of russia's presents? it looks fairly permanent now in the region. what does that say? they we re region. what does that say? they were able obviously to drive out the us forces from syria, even though president trump said they are going to keep a number of us forces to secure and protect, but that held that russia won the war in syria, it became some real factor on the ground. in the meantime, russians just entered into the kurdish towns, especially kobane, and russian forces will be protecting the bo