Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan started his meeting in Nor Yedesia community, Aragatsotn region, by observing a minute of silence in memory of Vahe Vardanyan, a conscript martyred in recent Artsakh war.
According to the Prime Minister, now “we are in a very hard milestone after the recent hard war; and it is, in fact, very important to have answers to concrete questions.”
“This severe crisis may be a good opportunity for us, as a state, to think about the path we have taken; one of the greatest features of that path has been that the people and their rights have been alienated. The rights of that people have often been alienated by manipulating the Karabakh issue. It is very important for us to know in which parts of the 30 years we have made unremitting efforts to have a strong army and in which parts those efforts were either not used, or those efforts were actually directed to solve completely different problems.
Today we have a situation that the forces, which pushed away the people from power by manipulating the Karabakh issue, the very same people want to repeat the same story. I came to tell you today that we will not allow that. Today, after that hard war, we have been saying since December - let us make the people decide who will be in power and who will not. They say no, we do not agree that the people should decide. They want to make sure that the people are taken to the polling stations as before. They want to restore that situation,” Pashinyan said.
According to Pashinyan, however, “the power of people and the rights of people are red line for us.”
