“The most important issue and challenge is to ensure our external security. We need to acknowledge that our external security is indeed the biggest challenge we need to be able to address. And we must use several tools to solve this problem: first, our diplomacy and foreign policy, and second, the reforms of our armed forces and army, creating a truly professional army in Armenia. I ask you not to confuse the professional army with the contract army,” said Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, who heads the pre-election list of ‘Civil Contract’ party, during the presentation of the pre-election program of the party.
He stressed that they will go the way of raising the level of combat readiness of a soldier.
“We are going this way. This is a program that is very complicated, but on the other hand, it is a program that does not need to be discussed in detail in public. I want to emphasize that a key component of our security, no matter how different it may sound, is the November 9, 2020 trilateral statement. And we must do everything possible to ensure that all parties of the trilateral statement fully fulfill their commitments. Armenia has fulfilled its obligations so far and is working constructively in that direction,” he said.
Referring to the November 9 announcement, the point of opening communications in the region, Pashinyan stated. The Armenian government has not discussed, is not discussing and will not discuss any issue of corridor logic. If you want to know what the November 9 statement on the opening of regional communications means, read the Moscow trilateral statement of January 11, because that statement clearly states what that point means.”
