Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called on Armenians to fully embrace the Republic of Armenia as their permanent homeland, arguing that continued focus on returning to former settlements risks treating the country as a “stopover” rather than a final home.
“We must ultimately acknowledge that the process of searching for a homeland is over. We have found our homeland, and that is the Republic of Armenia,” Pashinyan said at a campaign event for the Civil Contract party in the town of Spitak.
According to him, if the idea of returning to former places of residence continues to exist in people’s subconscious, then the Republic of Armenia will be perceived not as a homeland, but as a stopover.
“If in our subconscious there is constantly the idea that we must return to Van, Mush, Karabakh, Nakhchivan, then we begin to treat our country as a stopover,” he said.
Pashinyan compared it to the feeling of being at a stop during a journey, when a person cannot fully relax or feel secure.
“The entire meaning of today’s political process is that we are changing the understanding of the Republic of Armenia as a stop into the understanding of a place of destination. We have arrived, people,” the Prime Minister stated.
He also addressed Armenians forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, noting that they too should change the feeling of being in a “stop” and settle in Armenia.
“Now they have come here, and we want those people to settle down, to become settled like us, to change the feeling of a stopover into the feeling of a destination,” said Pashinyan.
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