No Talk of Asking for a Girl: Alan Simonian States Under What Conditions They Will Leave

This is not a conversation about asking for a girl, whether someone loves or does not love someone else. If the price of security is our departure, let them say it openly, we’ll leave right now,” said the Secretary of the Security Council, Alan Simonian, during a broadcast on Public TV.

He was responding to the host's reference, stating that the opposition claims that Putin does not love them but loves Kocharian. “Does Russia have interests here or not? Well, if they don’t like the Prime Minister, they love Kocharian or they love Serzh Sargsyan. But what are their interests? If the price of security is our departure, let them say it openly, we’ll leave right now. This is a false, fabricated thing. We are in power, and we have no need to get anything from Brussels, Moscow, or Washington. Our support comes from the people of Armenia,” Simonian noted.