Preferred“We talk a lot about peace, but I want to emphasize that peace is not only a political concept, but also a socio-psychological one,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today, March 26, at a government meeting.
“I want to note and even condemn all those tendencies aimed at keeping our compatriots displaced from Karabakh, and the Armenian people as a whole, in the status of wanderers.
When we talk about return, we are essentially the first to prevent these people from calming down and coming to terms with their situation. This is very important, because peace is not just an agreement — peace is when a person calms down, understands, and does not keep a suitcase ready. There is nothing more cruel and painful than waiting. But we, as a people, have been living with this expectation for 100 years, and this is an imperial policy, an anti-Armenian policy, according to which if you do not calm down, you will return or we will return — then there will be international recognition of the genocide, then you will return to Van, Mush, I don’t know, Cilicia, and so on.
This policy pursues two goals: first, to preserve a refugee mentality within the Armenian people, and second, to prevent the creation of the Republic of Armenia as a state, because in a country where the social psychology of refugees prevails, where we are supposed to go somewhere else, this is not a place where we should stay — such a state cannot be built,” Pashinyan said.
