Pashinyan: We have moved beyond the logic of struggle and survival to  the logic of development

ArmInfo. During  a meeting with residents of Kornidzor on May 8,  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  stated that Armenian society had been convinced for many years that certain territories belonged to Armenia, which inadvertently weakened the sense of ownership over Armenia's own internationally recognized  territories. "We have not lost territory.

Those lands that we perceived as ours in our minds—and which we convinced ourselves  belonged to us—not only did not belong to us, but were used to  undermine our legal right to belong to and possess our own  internationally recognized territories," Pashinyan noted.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the country has traveled an  incredibly difficult path, noting that the Armenian state had been  "trapped" from the very first day of its creation in 1991. Pashinyan  asserted that the government had the courage to face the truth,  successfully extracting the state from a long-standing "trap" and  placing it on a new trajectory. "We have overcome the logic of  struggle and survival and transitioned to the logic of development,"  he stated.

Addressing the concept of "liberated territories," the Prime Minister  questioned the previous administration's use of those lands. "They  say these were 'liberated territories'—but weren't they all under the  control of four or five generals, who used them simply to sow wheat  or for outright looting? As a state and as a people, we have provided  an answer to this," Pashinyan added.