Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that the peace agenda adopted by his government is an “independence agenda”.
Pashinyan made the remarks in a statement he his office released on the 33rd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia on Wednesday, August 23.
“And now, on the 33rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I want to emphasize that the peace agenda adopted by our government is the independence agenda, because if we have peace, we will have independence. As long as we do not have peace, the ghost of the USSR will hover in our sky, in the sky of our region,” Pashinyan said.
“I choose independence, sovereignty, democracy. The citizen of the Republic of Armenia chooses independence, sovereignty, democracy.”
On August 23, 1990 – exactly 33 years ago – the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR adopted the Declaration on the Independence of Armenia.
