Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan commented on attempts to identify his episode expert cooperation with the Armenian special services with the alleged activities of Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, an agent of the USSR KGB.

The head of the foreign policy department emphasized the fundamental difference between supporting one’s own state and serving the special services of the vanished empire.

On March 23, in a conversation with journalists, the RA Foreign Minister referred to this topic, which received public resonance, pointing out the obvious political context of such questions. Answering the question whether he is considered an agent of the National Security Service, Mirzoyan flatly denied such a wording.

The minister clarified that at one time the RA NSS turned to him exclusively as a field expert in order to receive advisory support on a very specific and weighty issue. Being an active opposition figure, Mirzoyan nevertheless agreed to help, being guided by state rather than narrow party interests.

According to him, it referred to the security and state institutions of the Republic of Armenia, not the authorities of the day. That cooperation was short-lived, and the diplomat himself never hid that fact.

Explaining the difference between the statuses of an expert and an agent, the minister emphasized that an agent is a recruited person who unconditionally fulfills various assignments of the relevant structure. Mirzoyan considered it inappropriate to draw parallels between the citizen who tried to be useful for the national security of his independent country in a difficult situation, and the person who was an agent of the special services of an entire empire.

Reference: At the end of 2025, the RA government and the NSS published archival documents, according to which Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, leader of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and Nor Nakhichevan (Catholic of All Armenians Garegin B brother) was recruited by the KGB of the USSR under the operational code name “Karon” in the 1980s. The archbishop himself categorically denied those accusations, calling the documents fake.

Earlier, in 2021, political opponents Ararat Mirzoyan were accused of secretly cooperating with the RA NSS under the code name “Omega”. At that time, Mirzoyan confirmed the fact of contact with the special services in 2007, but emphasized that he interacted with them exclusively as a scientist-researcher in order to protect the country’s national interests.

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