“After the revolution, when we were asked about the economic issues, we first emphasized the importance of constitutionalism in the country. We said that for the economy, everyone’s equality before the law, legality and the creation of an environment of justice are important,” said Nikol Pashinyan, Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, during the conference titled “Current issues and strategic directions of the development of the Armenian economy”.

“The next problem we faced is the extreme inefficiency of the state administration system. We will inevitably address that topic next year,” he said. Nikol Pashinyan also emphasized the importance of providing opportunities. According to him, today an opportunity has been created for the role and responsibility of solving problems to be not only the government’s, but different levels of the public.

“Everyone wants the government to engage in micro-management, for the prime minister to personally solve the issue of “rubilnik” in such and such a neighborhood, such and such a building, such and such a porch. In this way, we will face a disaster,” he said.

The Acting Prime Minister emphasized that after the revolution, changes were observed in people’s perceptions and behavior.

“Changing the behavior of taxpayers, employees, and businessmen is the most important issue that we need to solve today. A bad attitude towards business has been formed for a long time, because they have been constantly involved in political processes. We have now made it so that the number of business candidates in the upcoming elections is unprecedentedly low, but I do not want this to be perceived as a process of belittling the status of a businessman, on the contrary. A businessman should appoint much more than a deputy”, said the head of the government, writes Panorama.

Nikol Pashinyan expressed his conviction that the RA economy should serve our strategic needs, and there is indeed a potential to build such an economy.

“In the last twenty years, they have not solved any security issue, they have solved the issue of justifying corruption. We should not explain the lack of development of our economy by the security environment,” he said.

In his speech, Nikol Pashinyan also touched on the issue of immigration, noting that immigration does not mean the mere physical transfer of people, but also the immigration of capital and new culture.

“Armenia should become an object of immigration, as a result of that process we should have a thousand-year-old, but also a newborn society,” he said.

Speaking about universities, Pashinyan mentioned that an incomprehensible institute of state and departmental universities has appeared in Armenia.

“There are departments that finance universities. We have a situation when a student, after graduating from a university, goes to a state department to get a job, they say: your diploma does not tell us anything, you should come and graduate from our department’s university. It is clear to me that there should not be such a division. In the modern world, many great discoveries have been made based on student essay ideas, but what percentage of our youth write essays? When you walk near the Youth Center, there are more stalls selling essays than selling cigarettes. The disintegration starts there,” said Nikol Pashinyan.

He considered the internationalization of universities, the policy of attracting foreign students to Armenian universities, as one of the prerequisites for the development of the educational sector. The Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia admitted that when he was a member of the National Assembly, he thought that he had a good grasp of the problems in Armenia, but after becoming the Prime Minister, he became more and more convinced every day that his perceptions were romantic.

At the same time, Pashinyan emphasized that our greatest values ​​are human and intellectual capitals. “Our goal is to ensure the freedom, happiness and well-being of our citizens,” summed up the acting prime minister.