Government adopts Real Armenia concept as necessary precondition for lasting statehood

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 18, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government has adopted the concept of "Real Armenia" as a necessary precondition for lasting statehood, PM Nikol Pashinyan has said.

Speaking at the Global Armenian Summit about the security environment, he said that the people endorse this vision.

“My administration’s perception in the security issue is significantly connected with a conceptual question, what function does the Republic of Armenia have? I think that on the social-psychological level, in our reality, at least until recently the general perception had been the following, that the Republic of Armenia is a tool or an outpost, a point of support so that we have a bigger country, up to establishing historical justice, taking historical revenge. There is also the second perception, that the Republic of Armenia is a tool for ensuring the prosperity of its own people in its internationally recognized territory, with the perception that freedom, justice and security are included in prosperity. We nominally call the first one as the 'historical Armenia' concept, while the second one is the 'real Armenia'. Not being detached from the Armenian reality and our environment, understandably having lived in the environment that we had, and having gone through this difficult path, the government has concluded that the vision of real Armenia can ensure Armenia’s security, because otherwise it would mean that we are putting the country in the historical cycle where there is one inevitable outcome, the loss of Armenia’s statehood,” the PM explained.