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Zohrab Mnatsakanyan - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
Has anything really changed since Armenia's new reformist government was installed last year? Stephen Sackur speaks to Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Armenia’s foreign minister.
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Armenia’s foreign minister. Armenia is a small state with outsize 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. Is Armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration?
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Sat 26 Oct 201923:06GMT
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Zohrab Mnatsakanyan (Credit: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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