Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Armenia is a small state with outsized strategic significance in a caucasus region beset with tension and hostility. Last year, popular protests delivered a so called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed in yerevan amid ambitious talk of reform. My guest is the foreign minister in that government, zohrab mnatsakanyan. Is armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration . Zohrab mnatsakanyan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Last year saw Major Political upheaval in your country armenia, the so called velvet revolution, after which you and your government claimed that you were working for a new armenia. Sceptics will say it looks very much like the old armenia. So, whats different . Why would they say that . Because, for example, you were an official for many, many years, under previous regimes. You are a man of great governmental experience, you are not a new broom at all. I made a choice of my own, i made a ch
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