On November 9, 2020, I said, "I don't care about anyone's opinion at the moment, I take responsibility and will sign this paper." Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in his closing remarks during Thursday’s debates on the 2025 state budget draft at the session of the National Assembly of Armenia.

Pashinyan noted this in connection with the Armenian, Russian, Azerbaijani trilateral statement on the cessation of the 44-day Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020. 

"I believe that I did the right thing. Why did I do it? That is another matter," he added.

According to Pashinyan, there comes a time when you just have to take responsibility.