Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met in Astana with representatives of the Armenian community in Kazakhstan. In attendance were Armenians not only from Astana, but also from other regions located hundreds of kilometers away from the capital. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Armenian community of Uzbekistan, led by Reverend Father Hovhannes Grigoryan, the pastor of the Church of St. Philip in Tashkent and the Church of the Holy Virgin in Samarkand. Welcoming the...
Honorable National Assembly President, Dear Members of Parliament, Dear Compatriots, Dear Journalists, First of all, I would like to thank those MPs who have signed my nomination paper. I have already said that this nomination is of formal nature, and for the second time now, we have been holding an election not for electing a prime minister, but for voting against. Under the constitutional procedure, my nomination or the nomination of any other person as prime minister was not...
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had working dinner with members of the Board of Trustees and Advisory Council of the Armenian Foundation for Science and Technology (FAST), which features scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world Addressing those present, Nikol Pashinyan stated, in part: “Honorary members of the Trust Board of Trustees, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to welcome the Innovative Forum’s organizers and participants. It is...
Honorary members of the Trust Board of Trustees, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to welcome the Innovative Forum’s organizers and participants. It is symbolic for me to address you from this podium, because by saying innovation people often mean technology or the quasi-technological sphere. But I believe the concept of innovation refers to everything from politics and management systems to education and technical progress. After all, what is innovation? The art of doing the...
Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today attended the “Investment and Trade” forum in Yerevan, which has brought together parliamentarians, ministers, entrepreneurs, presidents of chambers of commerce and industry, representatives of major companies from 20 countries. Nikol Pashinyan praised the businessmen participating in the forum for their willingness to invest in our country: “Unfortunately, the words “corruption” and “poverty” used...
Honorable Speaker of the National Assembly, Dear National Assembly Members, Dear Journalists, Dear Compatriots, First of all, I would like to make it clear that my nomination as prime minister is of formal nature, and I have been nominated for the post of prime minister by Yelk faction not to be elected, but on the contrary, to be rejected as a candidate for prime minister. Consequently, the National Assembly should not vote for me today. Mt nomination is meant to rule out any...
