Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory message on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas holidays.

“Dear people, proud citizens of the Republic of Armenia, proud citizens of the Republic of Artsakh, proud Armenians of the Diaspora.

Here’s to 2018. This was a year that will remain in the history of the world and the Armenian people, in the memory of every Armenian, as the year of the establishment of the power of the people, civil dignity, optimism and the victory of statehood.

2018 was a year when Armenians and Diaspora Armenians, old and young, women and men, rural and urban dwellers, united around one common goal and created one common victory, which ultimately became an exceptional achievement of national unity.

So, I want to formulate the problem that is set before us on this boundary line of 2018-2019. Make 2019 as dear and dear, as memorable and victorious as 2018 was.

And I consider it necessary to record that the past year was not the peak of our victories, but only the foothills, not the end of our march, but only the beginning.

In 2019, we must reach new heights, record new successes, and above all, in the socio-economic life of our country.

Our main task in 2019 is the economic revolution, making its results more and more visible. But next year will not be the peak of our victories either, not because our flight will be low, but because our national and state ambitions will be high, higher, higher and higher.

This is the key meaning of the non-violent, velvet, people’s revolution that took place in Armenia. When the people believe in the power of their unity, the power of their past and future. We believe in the creative talent of every citizen and 2019 will be the year of the victory of creative talent, when every individual, every citizen of the Republic of Armenia, every Armenian who immigrated to Armenia sees himself not in the role of a consumer, but in the role of a leader, not in the role of a follower, but in the role of a leader, not in the role of a tax evader, but in the role of a tax payer, not in the role of the unemployed, but in the role of an employee, not in the role of the poor, but in the role of conqueror of poverty, with poverty of irreconcilable, poverty with a creative mind, righteous in the role of an overcomer with work.

2019 should become the year of victory of individual effort, the year of combining thought and work. And so, in these New Year’s days, our mood should fill all of us with new strength and energy, and fill our homeland and people with new optimism and love.

Dear compatriots,

On this New Year’s Eve, I want to send special greetings to all our soldiers, officers, and generals standing on the front line and at the border, who are vigilantly guarding our New Year’s peace.

I salute the officers of the Armenian Police, National Security Service, Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Justice, who are performing their official duties in these minutes of the New Year, ensuring the safety of our people.

I greet our medical workers, energy, telecommunications, transport workers, and in general all people who welcome the New Year while performing their work duties.

And finally, I greet all the citizens of the Republic of Armenia, all our compatriots in Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora.

I love you all, I am proud of you all and I bow to you all.

Smile at each other, dear compatriots, because the New Year has come.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

And so, long live Freedom, long live the Republic of Armenia, long live we and our children who live and will live in Free and Happy Armenia.”