The government took an unconstitutional step to limit the activities of the Catholicos of All Armenians

The Mother See condemned the Armenian authorities, who, unable to correctly assess the realities and the importance of the Armenian Church’s support in the mourning of the fraternal Georgian people, rejected the petition submitted regarding the ban on His Holiness’s exit, considering the necessity of the Armenian Patriarch’s presence at the funeral of the Patriarch-Catholicos of Georgia unfounded. The Mother See emphasized that this style of behavior is reprehensible, does not stem from the interests of Armenia, and also greatly harms the country’s justice and international reputation.