There is a lot of talk that we have lost Nagorno-Karabakh. I have thought a lot about this issue, and here my conclusion is as follows: we have not lost Nagorno-Karabakh, but have found the Republic of Armenia. This is the truth. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during his concluding address at Thursday’s National Assembly debates on the report on the implementation of the 2024 state budget of Armenia, and then repeated another statement he had made earlier.

“The ‘Nagorno-Karabakh issue,’ as the [Armenian] opposition colleagues were wording [it], was used as a rope so that the Republic of Armenia, as an independent and sovereign state, would not exist, and the Republic of Armenia is existing. I, all of us, at least I, because I have not spoken to everyone in detail, am more optimistic than ever about the future of the Republic of Armenia,” the PM said.