Wednesday, November 9 2016 20:14

ArmInfo. The US foreign policy will not change after Donald Trump's victory, MP Tevan Poghosyan told ArmInfo's correspondent. 

According to him the US foreign policy does not depend on its  president's caprice, consequently one should not expect radical  changes from Trump. He noted that even the US Ambassador to Armenia  admits it. ''The Ambassador stated that only 20% of US policy depends  on president, most likely Trump will use his 20% at the beginning of  presidency, after which the planned scenario will continue'',  Poghosyan noted. He particularly recalled that the acting president  of the USA Obama and his predecessors promised to recognize the  Armenian Genocide, however did not keep the promise after becoming  president. 

Poghosyan also mentioned that during election campaign Trump was  planning to toughen policy against Iran which is according to him is  not beneficial for Armenia. ''He was also talking about possible  cooperation with Asad's regime in Syria,which is positive however he  had said nothing about relations with Turkey or Azerbaijan,  consequently it is too early to forecast to what changes Trump's  policy will lead in our region''.

At the same time Poghosyan noted that he does not expect any changes  in the US stand on Karabakh settlement as well as recognition of  Genocide.''Washington will continue its work within the OSCE Minsk  Group and I do not think that Trump's victory will lead to change of  the USA's stand on this issue'', he summarized. 

To note, US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills touching upon  possible changes in Armenian- US relations after the presidential  elections stated that no matter which party wins presidential  elections in the USA, the country's foreign policy will remain 80%  the same. The USA will continue to fulfill its obligations to its  friends and Armenia is surely among them. Providing assistance to  Armenia aimed at its development into an independent, prosperous  country living in peace with its neighbors will remain among the  USA's priority issues. We will remain Armenia's stable and reliable  partner and will continue joint work aimed at  building prosperous  Armenia, Mills said. 

The final results of the presidential elections in the USA have not  been announced yet, however Republican Donald Trump's victory is  almost evident, considering that he has already won 276 electoral  votes, while Hillary Clinton got only 218. Almost 56.9 mln people  have voted for Trump and 55.8 mln for Clinton. The candidate from  Democrats has already congratulated Trump by phone.