Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urges the Armenian society to make a transition from political peace to socio-psychological peace, finally abandoning the agendas of confrontation and “return”.

At the March 26 meeting of the government, the head of the executive emphasized that maintaining the achieved peace requires profound changes in public consciousness. Pashinyan warned that the continuation of conflict speech inevitably leads to isolation and confrontation with everyone. According to him, after realizing the insufficiency of its own resources for such a confrontation, the society starts looking for external guarantors, which only complicates the situation. Turning to an analogy, the Prime Minister compared the establishment of peace with returning to a peaceful port. He called on the citizens to “destroy the trunks and arrange them in the closets”, finally moving to a permanent and quiet residence regime. Attempts to turn the wheel of “return agendas”, as Pashinyan noted, will turn into a disaster, where the initiators of the process will suffer the most.

For reference, it should be noted that Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed the draft peace treaty on August 8, 2025 in Washington. For the final signing of the document, Baku demands from Yerevan to amend the Constitution, removing the reference to the Declaration of Independence, in which the Azerbaijani side sees territorial claims, as well as to officially agree to the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. The opposition of Armenia strongly criticizes these processes, considering such steps as unilateral concessions that put the country’s state sovereignty and national security under attack.

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