Is US State Department Taking Orders for its Country Reports?

There is nothing new in the way the US pursues its policy towards other states, New Times Party leader Aram Karapetyan said at a press conference today, referring to a recent State Department report on Armenia.

“The world powers have always pursued such a policy: they call you and if you do not go, they beat you so that you come. They beat you and you come, and when they see you have come very close they push you back a little. There is nothing new in that,” said Karapetyan.

Karapetyan noted that he doesn’t recall a time when the US wrote a positve report on a country. In his words, most of those reports are made to order.

“They give money, the report is written; they give money, the report is not written [meaning, those paying decide whether and how a report is written],” explained the New Times Party leader.