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Peace is the state’s guarantee of security, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
“Is there any guarantee for security? I believe there is,” he said at the Comprehensive Security and Resilience 2025 International Conference in Yerevan.
“There is a security guarantee — and that guarantee is peace. Any guarantee other than peace simply doesn’t exist and cannot exist. Do we have peace today? Yes, we do. But that peace requires daily care,” Pashinyan said.
He emphasized that peace must be both nurtured and institutionalized.
“Peace requires daily care and, moreover, institutionalization. Today, we have peace; we have a declaration of peace. When I say peace must be institutionalized, I primarily mean the signing and ratification of the peace agreement [with Azerbaijan].
But even after that, peace will continue to require institutionalization — because, as stated in the text of the agreement, commissions must be established to address environmental, economic, humanitarian, and other issues,” he explained.
The Prime Minister stressed that new challenges will emerge at every stage of the peace process, which will require institutional solutions.
“Even peace that lasts more than fifty years needs institutionalization. If you fail to institutionalize peace, it becomes de-institutionalized — in other words, it begins to erode,” he warned.
Referring to a previous statement he made in the spring, Pashinyan added:
“Regarding my earlier statement that there will be no war between Armenia and Azerbaijan — that there will be peace — I want to state for the record: from now on, there is already peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”