“Peace is not only a political, but also a socio-psychological concept,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at today’s cabinet meeting.
He condemned all tendencies aimed at keeping displaced persons from Artsakh, and Armenians more broadly, in a prolonged state of refugee status.
“When we speak about a return agenda, we do not allow these people to calm down and rebuild their lives, because peace is not merely an agreement. Peace is when a person can find inner peace and understand that there is nothing more destructive than constant waiting. Yet we, as a people, have lived with that sense of waiting for a hundred years which is an imperial, anti-Armenian policy,” Pashinyan noted.
He added that people are often told that “there will be international recognition of the Genocide, and they will return to Van, Mush, Cilicia, and so on.”
According to Pashinyan, this prevents Armenia from establishing itself as a state.
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