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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that people ought to visit the village of Kirants if they want to understand what his Real Armenia doctrine is about.
Kirants is the border town in Armenia’s northeast where a section of the international border with Azerbaijan has been successfully delimitated.
On February 19, Prime Minister Pashinyan addressed the nation in what he described as an ideological message and unveiled the Real Armenia doctrine, a suggested plan seeking political, economic transformation, focusing on all areas of public life and stressing the need for citizens to form a new understanding of patriotism, among others.
“Yesterday I presented the Real Armenia ideology to participants of the business seminar, and then I asked them to visit Kirants together. Kirants is the first realization of the Real Armenia ideology,” Pashinyan said in a statement a day after visiting the village in Tavush province together with business forum participants in Dilijan.
“A delimitated and demarcated state border, safe and peaceful life, a new school, improved highway, a church undergoing restoration, population growth: Prior to the delimitation there were only 80 homes in Kirants, and now another 43 are being built. This is the Real Armenia. Everyone who wants to see what the Real Armenia ideology is practically about, please visit Kirants. Not simply hear about Kirants, but visit and see it. Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times,” the PM added.
The representatives of the business community, together with President Vahagn Khachaturyan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, visited the new Kirants school built by the government as part of the 300 new schools and 500 new kindergartens project. They were also briefed on the government-funded restoration work in the Holy Trinity Church.
Dozens of new homes are under development in Kirants as part of the government-funded housing support project, offering residents affordable mortgage loans.