Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday said the best guarantee against the repetition of the Armenian Genocide is a strong, peaceful, and sovereign Republic of Armenia, stressing that Armenians must focus on strengthening their internationally recognized statehood rather than pursuing “lost homelands” beyond the country’s borders.
Excerpts from his historic statement are below and link to his address are below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tpT2Q8AhY
Today, we have achieved that goal, including because we understood that we must not allow the Mets Yeghern to become a tool in the hands of international players in their struggle against one another.
The volume of Armenian History published by our National Academy of Sciences clearly records that the Great Catastrophe was also the result of a practice of drawing the Armenian people into international intrigues—a practice that began in the mid-19th century and reached its tragic climax in 1915.
Today, we are leading the Republic of Armenia precisely with this logic—the ideology of the Real Armenia—understanding that peace and security primarily mean normalized relations with neighbors, based on mutual recognition of each other’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, inviolability of borders, and political independence.
Those forces that call for “returning the lost homeland,” “restoring historical borders,” and “restoring justice” are placing the Republic of Armenia back on the rails of the 1878 San Stefano Conference, whose inevitable final stop is the loss of statehood and homeland, because everyone in the world has their own history, their own justice, and their own lost homeland.
We have finally escaped this trap, and attempts to lead Armenia back in that direction are an invitation to the scaffold for our state and our people.
