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Those engaged in the foreign affairs of the United States work very professionally and this variety was, really, quite interesting, said Armenia’s Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan, speaking to journalists today about the US Embassy cables recently released by WikiLeaks.
In the National Assembly deputy’s opinion, the published documents will have their influence; however, more interesting for Martirosyan are the documents that aren’t published.
“Armenia’s authorities, it seems, are spared with the published documents and such documents that might be considered serious direct public pressure haven’t been publicized,” said the MP, not excluding, however, the option that the Armenian authorities might have taken not-publicized measures, which “can be used to exert pressure on them.”
Asked why the RA authorities are spared, the MP assumed that there are still threats from the authorities and “there’s no need to use the mechanism of public pressure.”
“Plus, the states publicized in the documents which interfered somewhat with the United States’ foreign policy, essentially, should smarten up a bit,” said Martirosyan.
Such an outflow Martirosyan doesn’t consider to be a US failure, since the US has probably not seen such an “operative information outflow.”
“It doesn’t have to be carried out by the [US] State Secretariat. The United States, let me put it this way, are well-off in this sense, [because] they always have alternatives in a governing sense and they might’ve implemented one of those alternatives,” he said.
Martirosyan doesn’t think this incident is a huge problem, and it will have a negative influence not on the US, but on third countries.