Pashinyan calls to forget about war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, declares new revolution

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared in parliament that the text of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been agreed upon and urged both countries to move past the era of war and escalation.

“Forget about escalation and war between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Pashinyan said, Caliber.Az reports via Armenian media.

He emphasised that the Armenian government would not take steps or issue statements contradicting this path toward peace. Pashinyan also called on the Azerbaijani leadership to act in the same spirit, saying, “We call on the authorities of Azerbaijan to also refrain from actions that go against the idea of peace.”

Delivering a series of wide-ranging remarks during his address to parliament, Pashinyan also declared that Armenia is undergoing a new revolution — one he described as social and psychological — which he argued is no less important than the “Velvet Revolution” of 2018. He referred to this shift as the “revolution of the real Armenia.”

A key feature of this transformation, according to the Prime Minister, is the convergence of the concepts of homeland and state. “For the first time in several centuries,” he said, “both the homeland and the state for Armenians is the Republic of Armenia.”

Pashinyan criticised opposition forces, accusing them of not understanding the new reality. He recalled how, historically, Armenians often considered their homeland to be Armenia, while their states were foreign empires. “For the past six centuries, Armenians regarded Armenia as their homeland, while their states were Persia, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union,” he stated.

The Prime Minister stressed that Armenia today faces a rare historical opportunity to build a genuinely independent and sovereign state. He called on Armenians to move beyond historical resentment and distrust toward the concept of the state.

“We must abandon historical hatred toward the state as a foreign institution and learn to see it as our own,” Pashinyan said.