Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the presentation of Armen Grigoryan’s book “Make a Step, Reject Serzh” at the National Gallery of Armenia. The book is an exclusive documentary of the inner thoughts, organizational details, and historical shifts of the velvet, non-violent revolution in Armenia in 2018. The author, combining personal experience, political analysis, and facts, opens the doors behind which the nationwide movement was formed. The book presents in detail the tactics of street struggle, the difficulties of organizing civil disobedience actions, and the decisive milestones to achieve victory.

Nikol Pashinyan made a speech and quoted Mao Zedong’s words when asked about the French Revolution: “It is too early to draw conclusions about that.” “After the revolution of 2018, my conclusions about the revolution change every week. Reading Armen Grigoryan's book, which I haven't finished yet, has once again brought up the question: what do I think about the People's, non-violent, velvet revolution of 2018? Indeed, now I completely agree with Mao Zedong; it's still too early to draw conclusions about that," the Prime Minister said.

According to the Prime Minister, there is no need to draw conclusions because any revolution is an opportunity. "However, it is an opportunity for everyone. The question here is how each of us uses that opportunity and how we use it. Today, the revolution is still an opportunity."

According to Nikol Pashinyan, the revolution is a success story, and it is still too early to draw conclusions. "The revolution is about having a daily relationship with life, because when we say democracy, we mean that every citizen has a daily relationship with life. This is the difference between non-democracy and democracy, the more often a person interacts with life, the more democratic the country is, the less it interacts with life, the less democratic it is," said the Prime Minister, adding that in that context, the revolution is a success story because it connected the citizen with life and reality.

According to the Prime Minister, the biggest challenge of the revolution is how to prevent it from reaching the zero point, that is, reaching the point from which it started. "My biggest impression about our revolution was when I was in the position of prime minister in 2018, communicating with leaders of other countries, a long-time leader of a developed country said: you know, our country also needs such a revolution. And I want to end my speech by noting that our country still needs a revolution," Nikol Pashinyan summed up.