ArmInfo. "Our future is to build a strong Armenia, and for this we must use our advantage - human resources," said Armenian President Armen Sarkissian at a meeting with the Armenian community of Japan.
According to the President, the enormous difficulties of the war can be described in one word - crisis. "This is a crisis because we have lost thousands of young lives, many young people have lost their health. There is a moral and psychological crisis, because it is psychologically difficult to lose the war, especially for a country that won the war 26 years ago, "he said.
The President noted that defeat should be a lesson for everyone, from the President of the Republic, the government, the National Assembly to ordinary citizens. "Another conclusion is that any state ultimately builds its future on its own advantages. And our main resource is people. We have an advantage here because we have a Diaspora." A large number of Armenians live in Russia, the United States, France and all over the world. "This is a huge advantage," President Sarkissian said. "We have compatriots who study, receive education, develop, gain experience. Then all this can work for the good of Armenia, but we are creating obstacles. After all, the 21st century will not be the century of natural resources. "The largest companies in the world are no longer oil companies, they are technological companies," Sarkissian stressed, noting that building a strong Armenia should be based on the use of the main resource - the human one.
In this regard, speaking about the possibility of using the potential of the Diaspora for the development of the country, the President called constitutional changes one of the main ways. "We must do everything so that any Armenian, no matter where he lives, has the opportunity to voluntarily serve the Motherland, because there should be no barriers," the President said, stressing that the future lies not with ordinary programming, but with artificial intelligence, not with conventional biology, but biotechnology. The President noted that one of the goals of his visit to Japan is to meet with the world's leading technology companies. "Armenia and Japan can work together, especially in the field of high technologies. I hope that Japanese companies will participate in the technological development of Armenia>. Speaking about his vision of a developed country, Sarkissian noted: "Like any other state, we have only one way to achieve success - to build a really strong state in the heart and mind of each of us. A strong state also means a state that can achieve great success with few resources, that is, disciplined, knowing where it is going. And since Armenia is a small country, this vision cannot be ordinary, it needs to be turned into a mission. When you are small, you must be able to combine all your forces so that the force of the blow is great. A small state can do it. There are many such examples in the world>.