Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, Today we celebrate the 34th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Armenia. On September 21, 1991, the following question was put to a referendum: “Do you agree that the Republic of Armenia should be an independent democratic state outside the USSR?” and 94 percent of our people, voters, answered “yes” and thus the Third Republic of Armenia was founded. What were the citizens who participated...
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, On August 23, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR adopted the Declaration of Independence of Armenia. This document marked the beginning of the process of establishing our independent statehood, the Republic of Armenia. The Declaration, in essence, expressed the collective mood of the political and intellectual elite of Armenia at the time of its adoption, bore the stamp of the Karabakh movement that had begun just two...
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, The summit hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House on August 8, 2025, is a turning point. In the presence of the US President, the President of Azerbaijan and myself, the Foreign Ministers initialed the “Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan,” as well as a joint application to the Organization for Security and...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the International Conference on Nature and Environment Protection in Altai. The event was also attended by the heads of governments of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In his speech, Prime Minister Pashinyan, in particular, noted: “Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich, Dear heads of delegations, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank for the invitation to participate...
Honorable President of the National Assembly, Honorable Vice-Presidents, Honorable Cabinet members, Honorable MPs, Thank you for the earnest discussions. Many of the ideas expressed are valuable, some more, some less. Some are valuable in their worthlessness, because they sometimes give more active room for thinking. I participated in the entire discussion and followed the exchange of ideas, and I asked myself the question: if I were an opposition member, how would I criticize our...
Honorable President of the National Assembly, Honorable Vice President of the National Assembly, Honorable Cabinet members, Honorable Deputies, Honorable Guests, Dear People, This is the 13th time I participate in the discussions of the state budget implementation report in the National Assembly. I have participated six times as an MP and this is the seventh time I am participating as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. And in all of these discussions, I have...
