Does the Diaspora have the right to participate in Armenia’s internal political life, to influence Armenia’s foreign policy, security policy, processes of regulating relations with neighboring states or any other policy being implemented, and moreover to exert pressure on the developers of that policy…
…From a legal perspective, it should be noted once and for all that ethnic affiliation and citizenship are completely different phenomena. A legal state relates to a person exclusively based on their citizenship….
…In the political-philosophical dimension, there are concepts such as the contradiction of interests between two states.
For example, how should a person who is a citizen of Russia or France, however, participating in policy-making in the Republic of Armenia, behave when a decision must be made that contradicts the interests of those countries, because the interests of those countries and the Republic of Armenia may necessarily not coincide? This leads to the next political-philosophical question: what do people consider Armenia – the Republic of Armenia within its current borders, or the “ancestral homeland” present in their mental image, and consequently, which of these is predominant?
