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.