Saturday, April 27 2024 15:13

ArmInfo.  Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan has addressed a message on Citizen's Day. 

"Today we celebrate Citizen's Day, which appeared on our calendar  after the People's Nonviolent Velvet Revolution of 2018 to mark the  actual confirmation of the long-proclaimed resolution that power in  the Republic of Armenia belongs to the people.

This resolution is now an irreversible reality in Armenia, and this  is also confirmed by the events of recent years, when the once  elites, who could decide in small meetings who will be the government  and who will be the opposition, are no longer able to do this, since  they have the right to make such decisions, and only one subject has  such an opportunity, and this subject is the Citizen of the Republic  of Armenia, and the collective of citizens is the People.

It is the anointing of the Citizen as the supreme bearer of power  that occurred during the People's, non- violent, velvet revolution of  2018, and it is the anointed Citizen that allows us to confront the  most difficult challenges that have befallen us in recent years.

The main goal of these tests is our independence, sovereignty and  statehood, and the anointing of a citizen is not the main reason for  these tests, but the ability to overcome them," the message says.

"The most important of them is territorial integrity, without which  the state cannot exist, and one of the key issues on our agenda,  which we are now addressing, is the territorial integrity of the  Republic of Armenia, reproducing the internationally recognized  borders of our country. The country as the basis of our independence,  sovereignty, statehood, and the Citizen, with his calm guarantor of  statehood, guarantees that we are resolutely following this path.

The next most important guarantee of the existence of the state is a  popular agreement on a balanced relationship between rights and  responsibilities, a popular decision recorded in the legal  foundations of the state, and at some point we must also achieve this  strategic goal so that the country has a legal system, a system of  rights and responsibilities - his own, that of a citizen, he  considers what he has created, and not what some circles have imposed  on him. The legal order created by the consciousness and decision of  citizens is the most important condition for sovereignty and  statehood, and therefore the foundations of our statehood must be  strengthened and strengthened," the message further says.

Speaking about the reasons for the trials that Armenia is facing  today, Pashinyan assured that this is due to the fact that "no one  can live safely, with dignity, safely and happily in their home  without tidying up the doors, windows, roof and fence of this house.  During the 2018 Revolution, we knew that the doors, windows, roof and  fence of our home, the Republic of Armenia, needed to be put in  order, otherwise there would be no need for the Revolution."

"In 2018, we decided to be masters without thinking about the  consequences. It's not that we didn't think about the consequences  without understanding, but we didn't think about them when we  realized, because there is no point in thinking about the  consequences of being ourselves : You just have to decide whether you  want to be yourself or not.

We have decided that we are masters, and we are on the path to  becoming masters. And we will successfully walk this path, because  the will of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia to have a free,  sovereign, safe, happy state is strong as a rock, and our spirit is  unbending," the premier's message reads.