Do Not Judge, So You Will Not Be Judged: Pashinyan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan cited the New Testament during today’s government meeting on June 5: “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged, for with the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged.”

“This is a very important nuance. All the systems that we implement are not just about judging others but are about the idea that with the same judgment we use to judge others, we too will be judged. This is my understanding,” he stated.

Pashinyan emphasized that they cannot take a kindergarten from a former official’s wife and hand it over to their own... “It does not sound good for our women... we cannot take our women, children, and so on, because with the same judgment you use to judge, you will be judged the same way,” he highlighted.

The Prime Minister clarified that to judge does not necessarily mean to render a verdict; it also means to have an attitude. “This means that the same attitude will be present in our case. Let me tell you more—during our administration, we returned property that had been expropriated through a similar system, the principle is in place. There is no 'yours and ours'; there is only legal and illegal property,” he noted.

The Prime Minister declared that if their principle were to take everything possible from all places, they would not be struggling so much; they would not have initiated so many legislative drafts, new laws, or new courts.

“We do not want to take our country off the rails of legality, because that would mean the loss of the state. But on the other hand, we are consistent, and we have taken on an obligation before the people,” he stated.