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DIALOGUES FROM THE GREAT DIVIDE: VAZGEN I.

AIM: Didn't you have to be a skillful diplomat in order to favorably
steer national-spiritual life within political upheavals over a period
of more than three and a half decades of Communist rule? HIS HOLINESS
VAZGEN I: I don't think that I'm a diplomatic [i]role[/i] because no matter
what I've done, said or written, I've always been sincere. In my opinion,
the best diplomacy for a clergyman is sincerity - and sometimes the
audacity to act sincerely. I have always been sincere in the course
of my activity here during the Soviet

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