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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the peace achieved with Azerbaijan in 2025 gained legitimacy in 2026 through the choice and vote of the Armenian people in the parliamentary elections, which gave his party a majority in the next parliament.
Pashinyan made the remarks in parliament during a hearing on the 2025 budget execution report.
According to Pashinyan, 2025 saw the establishment of foundations that allow Armenia to move toward a new agenda — the agenda of building a state of a new quality.
“I consider it significant that in 2025 we established the foundations that allow us to say that we can transition to a new agenda that we have formulated, including during the 2026 parliamentary elections, as an agenda for building a state of a new quality,” Pashinyan said.
The prime minister highlighted the fact that in 2025 Armenia and Azerbaijan announced the completion of negotiations and the finalization of the draft agreement on peace and the establishment of interstate relations.
This, he said, made possible the establishment of peace on August 8, 2025, in Washington, with the participation and initiative of U.S. President Donald Trump.
“We must ultimately acknowledge that 2025 was the year when we fully recorded that we have peace, we have established peace, and, essentially, we have the end of the conflict between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan,” the prime minister noted.
According to Pashinyan, the results of the 2026 parliamentary elections showed that the Armenian people reaffirmed their support for the peace agenda.
“We must record that in 2026 this fact received legitimacy and was reaffirmed through the choice and vote made by the people of the Republic of Armenia. Through the results of the 2026 elections, the people of the Republic of Armenia stood by peace,” Pashinyan said.
The prime minister said that 2025 could be considered the best year of revolutionary governance, while in the following years the government should strive to record the best year of post-revolutionary governance every year.
Pashinyan also addressed the parameters of the 2026 state budget, saying they provide grounds for optimism regarding the overperformance of revenue targets.
“The parameters of the 2026 state budget give us optimism that in 2026 we will significantly exceed our planned revenues. This is primarily connected with the economic indicators we recorded in 2025,” the prime minister said.