Pashinyan stresses reform continuity and priority-oriented action plan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired on Thursday the first Cabinet meeting after the June 7 elections and vowed that his administration will continue reforms both in the current term and after forming the next government.

Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won a majority of seats in the next parliament in the June 7 polls.

Speaking at the Cabinet meeting, Pashinyan said that his administration’s objective is to continue the mission of building a new-quality state and ensuring the country’s progress.

“The state is a means to ensure the security, well-being, and freedom of the person and the citizen, and we must act according to that logic. We will now begin developing the [next] draft Government program, which, of course, must be approved by the National Assembly after the formation of the new Government,” Pashinyan said.

“I believe that the main logic will clearly be the continuity of our actions and tasks, and for that reason, at this stage it is important to fully analyze the previous period and understand what needs to be intensified, what we need to abandon, and where our results do not seem sufficient to us and require greater effort,” the Prime Minister emphasized.

He also added that he had proposed a new idea for the Government to include a clear list of priorities in its upcoming program.

“It is important that we have priorities and priorities of priorities. As, for example, in the previous Government program it was clearly stated that the top priority of all priorities is the peace agenda, and we remained highly focused on that topic and achieved results. Now we must have priorities and priorities of priorities so that in our daily work we can remain focused on a very narrow set of issues,” Prime Minister Pashinyan said.