Thursday, February 1 2024 22:34

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is convinced that if the state policy of Armenia is guided  and based on the decision to reunite Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, there will never be peace. Pashinyan expressed this conviction in an interview with Public Radio, touching on the Declaration of  Independence in the context of a possible new Constitution.

"What is the Declaration? We declared why we are creating a state,  because this declaration is that we are starting the process of  creating an independent state. And we note three guidelines: one is  historical justice, the other is the aspirations of the Armenian  people, the third is the decisions of the National Council of  Nagorno-Karabakh and the Supreme Council of Armenia on reunification.  For example, we always look from the point of view of Azerbaijan, but  why don't we look at how our other neighbors perceive it? How do they  perceive that we are creating a state to restore historical justice?  What does it mean to restore historical justice?", asked Pashinyan.

The Prime Minister emphasizes that "today we really need to regulate  our relations with the declaration.  "Now the question is whether our  state policy should be aimed at this and whether our state policy  should be guided by this message and be based on the decision of the  National Council of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Supreme Council of  Armenia on the reunification of Karabakh and Armenia. This is a  matter of political choice. If so, it means that we will never have  peace. Moreover, this means that we will now have a war," he said.

Pashinyan emphasized that the economy is growing well, obviously,  everyone sees that Armenia is spending very serious resources on  transforming the army. "That is, we declare, we say that now we are  strengthening the army and let's implement the provisions of our  declaration. If we say so, what does it mean? This means that our  neighbors will form an alliance to destroy us because we have stated  that at least we have an issue with them. Will the development and  perception of my narrative among the people strengthen or weaken  Armenia? Definitely, Armenia will strengthen, because if we rely on  this conversation and choose it as a long-term strategy, we will not  have problems, or we will have few problems," said the head of the  Armenian Cabinet.

Nikol Pashinyan also stated the need to develop a new national  security strategy, which includes the interests of protecting the  legitimate territorial integrity of the state. "The national security  strategy available today does not meet the challenges," said the RA  Prime Minister.