Armenia`s premier addresses message on Citizen`s Day
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.