Nikol Pashinyan Signs New Decision

The national security strategy of the Republic of Armenia will be revised. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signed a decision to establish an inter-agency commission to coordinate the work.

According to the attached document, the chairman of the commission will be Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia. The commission has 22 members, including deputy ministers, the heads of the State Revenue Committee, the National Security Service, and the State Protection Service, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, the head of the office of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, the advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan, the head of the office of the Security Council of Armenia, the chair of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations (by agreement), and the chair of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security (by agreement).

It is worth reminding that on January 28, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the national security strategy needs to change. The current national security strategy was adopted in 2020. It is noted therein that Armenians are proud citizens of Armenia, descendants of the people who founded the Third Republic of Armenia and liberated Artsakh. It is also stated that the Armenian people have gained the strength and ability to overcome numerous historical disasters and reach the 21st century through the skills, knowledge, and traits developed during their statehood. It is on the basis of this historical consciousness that the Armenian people were able to recreate their independent state immediately after the Genocide.

Among the national objectives emphasized are the international recognition of the right to self-determination of Artsakh without any limitations, the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and overcoming and eliminating its consequences.

In the section on "Armenia's Security Environment," it is stated that Turkey is pursuing an unkind policy towards Armenia by continuing the blockade of Armenia, refusing to establish diplomatic relations without preconditions, denying, and in some cases even justifying the Armenian Genocide, and so on.