Armenian Prime Minister congratulates fellow citizens on First Republic Day
YEREVAN, 28 May. /ARKA/. In a congratulatory message on the occasion of the First Republic Day celebrated on 28 May, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that it is one of the most important days in the state calendar.
"Firstly, it symbolizes the restoration of Armenian statehood on 28 May 1918, which took place after a 400-year break, after the battles of Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan and Karakilis," his message reads.
According to him, this day also symbolizes the establishment of people's power in Armenia, 'because on May 28, 1918 we established a system of state governance, where legislative and executive powers are formed by the choice of the people, where the people are the source and bearer of power, its founder and sovereign of the state. '
"This is the ideology of the republic first established in our reality in 1918. The establishment of the people as the supreme bearer of power is the turning point of our history, and this profound concept is anout the possibility of building our own freedom, security and well-being with our own hands. A republic is a people trying to control its own destiny, to establish its own rules of life and to pass on its sovereignty from generation to generation," Pashinyan said.
According to him, this is an extremely ambitious and responsible mission. "The First Republic had neither time nor opportunities to solve such conceptual tasks. Today we have both time and opportunity. After the 44-day war of 2020, the Republic of Armenia survived precisely thanks to the new ways of thinking that emerged, which allowed us to perceive the reality and our possibilities to influence it in a new way," the head of the government believes.
According to him, these new ways of thinking and points of view make it obvious that the ability to constantly change and evolve in an ever-changing world, to make decisions adapted to challenges and goals, is the formula that ensures the permanence of the state, the key to its viability.
"Our government is leading the Republic of Armenia along this very path, realizing that to be viable means to be able to preserve and develop statehood, identity, values, to be able to build freedom, security and well-being.
Armenia's present strategy is about just that. But it is also about the fact that freedom is not enough, justice is needed, security is not enough, peace is needed, prosperity is not enough, happiness is not enough, vitality is not enough, life is needed.
Careful, difficult, but that's the path we're on. Many people think we are moving slowly. We are moving forward slowly but without stops and we see the desired goal on the horizon," Pashinyan stated.-0-
