I Said That at This Moment, I Don't Care About Anyone's Opinion, and I Will Sign This Document: Pashinyan

Today, our collective socio-psychological state is essentially anti-state, and if we articulate it a bit more clearly, our collective subconscious is anti-state. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during his concluding speech at the National Assembly's discussion on the 2025 budget.

“I regularly catch myself thinking that sometimes what we say, what we assert, and sometimes what we believe, often or almost always, carries the invisible, unrecorded stamp of anti-statism to some extent. This applies to all of us, starting with myself, and I say this so that no one feels like they are in a position of accusation,” said Pashinyan.

According to him, only the state is the guarantee for the preservation and development of our national identity, and this has always been the case, but we have not fully and completely realized even this.

“Either there will be a state, and we will exist as the Armenian people, or if there is no state, we will not exist as the Armenian people. By the way, we exist today as a people exclusively thanks to the state tradition we had in the past, which fortunately we have not entirely lost, and this is one of the reasons that allows us to have an independent state today,” he said.

As for why our socio-psychological state is anti-state, Pashinyan explained that we have not had statehood for a long time.

“Our socio-psychological thinking was formed at a time when we did not have an independent state, but rather were a colony and did not have an organic connection with the state in which we lived,” he said.

The Prime Minister also addressed the signing of the November 9, 2020 document and noted that he did not ask anyone's opinion when signing the document. “On November 9, I said that at this moment, I don’t care about anyone's opinion, and I will sign this document, taking on the responsibility. And I believe that I did the right thing,” he noted.