YEREVAN (Realist English). Armenia’s foreign intelligence chief, Kristina Grigoryan, said on Tuesday that security and military threats facing the country have significantly diminished in recent months but cautioned that risks to the nation’s democratic system remain and should not be underestimated.
“Compared with what we faced a few months ago, I can say that security threats are very low,” Grigoryan told reporters. “But there are threats to our democracy, and they cannot be downplayed, because democracy is the pace and mode of our movement.”
Grigoryan attributed the easing of immediate security concerns to the signing of the Washington Agreements on August 8 and the launch of the Armenia–Azerbaijan border delimitation and demarcation process. She said these developments had helped to stabilise the regional environment.
However, she underscored the importance of addressing what she described as “hybrid” security risks, noting that such challenges rarely stem from a single state or actor.
“Threats to democracy usually originate from several centres acting separately,” Grigoryan said. “I can state with confidence that there is not a single state for which threats to democracy come from just one actor — and Armenia is no exception.”