The Republic of Armenia has moved beyond an imposed survival and struggle agenda and has entered a historic era of normal life, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday.

Speaking in parliament during the 2025 report on the implementation of his administration’s action plan, Pashinyan said that the country’s priority has become state development, education, employment, and the improvement of prosperity, emphasizing that Armenia’s historical mission is to develop the state and pass it on to future generations.

“Our historical mission is to be educated, to work, to develop the Republic of Armenia with its internationally recognized territory of 29,743 square kilometers, and to pass it on to future generations as an independent, peaceful, secure, developed, and prosperous state—generation after generation and century after century. To live, to be educated, to work, to develop prosperity, to develop peace, to develop the state, and to pass it on to generations through the centuries. This is the wonderful historical mission in which we find ourselves, which we call the agenda of the state’s eternal continuity,” the Prime Minister emphasized.

Pashinyan stressed that reaching this stage became possible thanks to public support and the legitimate mandate formed by the 2021 elections.

“The government and the parliamentary majority could not have done anything without the people’s mandate and support,” he said.

The prime minister reminded that the peace agenda had been clearly defined as the supreme goal in the government’s 2021 program.

According to him, that goal has now been achieved, albeit at a heavy cost.

“At what cost? At the cost at which it could be achieved. Yes, at the cost of numerous casualties and sacrifices, at the cost of many deprivations and suffering, at the cost of going through hell,” Pashinyan said.

He noted that Armenia today stands at a new historic stage, with statehood, peace, development, and prospects for the future.

The prime minister also addressed political assessments of the past, saying that public perceptions in earlier periods often did not correspond to reality.

“The discourse of ‘Karabakh was ours and is no longer ours’ was part of a philosophy and concept of being trapped in a geopolitical trap. The reality is that the Republic of Armenia was not ours and is now ours. The reality is that all the known territories were under Armenian control at the expense of our statehood, sovereignty, independence, prosperity, security, and future, and we did not understand this. Perhaps there were people who understood it and did not speak out because they were afraid. There were also people who both understood and spoke out, but we either did not listen to them, ignored them, or silenced them, convinced that they did not understand what they were saying, while we—including myself—did not understand what we were doing since 1988. And we did everything against ourselves and against the lessons of history.

But today we can say that we—the government and the governing majority—have changed the destructive course of our history and placed the Republic of Armenia on a constructive and peaceful path. Today our people are writing a completely new, state-centered chapter of their history, where the state is both the goal and the means,” Pashinyan concluded.