Dear compatriots, I congratulate us all on Republic Day. This holiday marks our nation’s unwavering will power to fight for independence and freedom. It embodies our people’s age-old desire to have an independent statehood. The Armenian people faced a mortal danger in those days of 1918. Catastrophe seemed inevitable. We seemed on the verge of being deprived of our legitimate right to building sovereign statehood on our native land and living in our homeland. In the...
Honorable National Assembly President, Honorable Vice Presidents, Distinguished National Assembly Members, Dear Compatriots, First of all, thank you for initiating this discussion. Although, frankly, I am not sure that the discussion is useful in terms of resolving the issues on the agenda, but it is certainly useful from the perspective of informing the public and answering the questions raised. I have already described the process that has been going on for the last two days...
Honorable National Assembly Deputy Speaker, Dear MPs, Dear compatriots, In fact, we are today holding a landmark discussion. During the yesterday’s discussion at the Security Council we stated that we should communicate more openly with both the Armenian society and the international community, because confidentiality may lead to unnecessary speculations and fake news. You are already aware that on the night of May 12, several groups representing different units of...
Thank you, dear colleagues. To begin with, I will make a note. Over the past month, I have spoken for many hours from this rostrum about the Karabakh issue in terms of its content, I talked about the details of the war, I have talked about the transformations and reforms carried out in Armenia over the past three years, and I can state that we did not encounter any substantive retaliation following those remarks and recordings, which is very important. Nevertheless, I would like to touch...
Dear compatriots, Congratulations on the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This is a great holiday that we are justifiably proud of. We have always celebrated it and we will continue to mark this day, since the Armenian people made a huge contribution to the fight against fascism in the 20th century. We suffered huge losses in that struggle. More than 500 thousand Armenians took part in the devastating war in the armies of the Soviet Union and allied nations,...
Thank you first of all for constructive proposals. We had agreed that today’s discussion would be of a technical nature, but ideas have been voiced here, which if overlooked might simply give a wrong impression, therefore, I would like to address a number of issues raised by our colleagues. The first has to do Armenia’s security system. The external security system of the Republic of Armenia did not change before the war and in the wake of it; our security system was supported...
