The visit of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, inspires hope that Armenia is not alone in its struggle, Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, said in an interview with the "Washington Post", presenting the goals of his visit to the United States last week to the famous columnist David Ignatius.

"I am here to discuss how we can strengthen US-Armenia relations. Areas of possible cooperation include security, energy, diplomacy and economic relations. The principle of "democracy strengthens democracy" will be the basis of relations”, Armen Grigoryan said.

The author of the article, David Ignatius, in his turn adds that the visit of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the lower house of the US Congress, to Yerevan on September 17, immediately after Azerbaijan's attack on Armenia, became a catalyst for the improvement of US-Yerevan relations.

Whether the expansion of Armenian-American relations will also extend to military cooperation, according to David Ignatius, remains uncertain for now. In any case, the author reminds that Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan visited the Pentagon in September.

"The armed forces of Armenia, which suffered a heavy defeat in the last war with Azerbaijan, need better combat training and weapons. But so far there are no visible signs of military support from the United States," the columnist writes.

According to Ignatius, as Russia is increasingly losing its military and diplomatic capabilities to settle the long-standing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan due to its deepening in the "Ukrainian quagmire", the administration of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, is trying to fill the gap by making active mediation efforts in that direction. One of them was the meeting in the White House between Armen Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev, brokered by Biden’s adviser Jake Sullivan, which Sullivan described as "direct and constructive negotiations."

According to David Ignatius, there are also small glimmers of change in Armenia’s relations with Turkey. Ignatius reminds that Ankara continues to deny the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the darkest event in Armenian history. However, Armen Grigoryan said that the process of "normalization" between Yerevan and Ankara has begun, and the parties have reached an agreement in principle on the principles of opening the Armenia-Turkey border to citizens of third countries.

But Grigoryan said discussion of “normalization” with Ankara has begun, and the leaders of the two countries have agreed in principle to open their borders to transit, initially by third-country nationals.

“We expect it to happen as soon as possible,” Grigoryan said of this border opening.

“But as always in such diplomatic gambits, the devil is in the details”, David Ignatius concluded.