Pashinyan's Independence Day Message to the Nation
21 SEP 2025 06:04
Pashinyan's Independence Day Message to the Nation
21 SEP 2025 06:04
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,
Today we celebrate the 34th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Armenia.
On September 21, 1991, the following question was put to a referendum: "Do you agree that the Republic of Armenia should be an independent democratic state outside the USSR?" and 94 percent of our people, of the voters, answered "yes," and thus the Third Republic of Armenia was founded.
What did the citizens who participated in the referendum and said "yes" to independence dream of at the moment of their vote? There is no such statistic, but surely, our compatriots were guided by the natural urge to build a free, peaceful, prosperous, and happy state.
Unfortunately, the life of the Third Republic did not turn out that way: the blockade, the war, the economic decline, and emigration did not allow the dream of the independence referendum to come true. But even in the most difficult and tragic days that the Third Republic has lived through, that dream, though faded, has never died in the eyes, minds, and souls of our citizens.
With the peace established on August 8, 2025, that dream has once again filled the Republic of Armenia, and it is our duty first to cherish it, and then to make it a reality.
Having gone through sufferings and sacrifices, today we have reached this point, and this is what the agenda for the establishment of the Fourth Republic is about, about never again letting the opportunity to fulfill the dream slip away.
An independent, sovereign, democratic, peaceful, protected, developed, free, and happy Armenia is now waiting for our care like a newborn child. And we all, dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, must be a father and mother to it. We must be a father and mother to ourselves, understanding that in the first quarter of the 21st century, the helm of our destiny is now truly in our hands, and we must never again let that helm go from our hands.
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, I congratulate all of us on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Armenia.
Glory to the martyrs and long live the Republic of Armenia.
Today we celebrate the 34th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Armenia.
On September 21, 1991, the following question was put to a referendum: "Do you agree that the Republic of Armenia should be an independent democratic state outside the USSR?" and 94 percent of our people, of the voters, answered "yes," and thus the Third Republic of Armenia was founded.
What did the citizens who participated in the referendum and said "yes" to independence dream of at the moment of their vote? There is no such statistic, but surely, our compatriots were guided by the natural urge to build a free, peaceful, prosperous, and happy state.
Unfortunately, the life of the Third Republic did not turn out that way: the blockade, the war, the economic decline, and emigration did not allow the dream of the independence referendum to come true. But even in the most difficult and tragic days that the Third Republic has lived through, that dream, though faded, has never died in the eyes, minds, and souls of our citizens.
With the peace established on August 8, 2025, that dream has once again filled the Republic of Armenia, and it is our duty first to cherish it, and then to make it a reality.
Having gone through sufferings and sacrifices, today we have reached this point, and this is what the agenda for the establishment of the Fourth Republic is about, about never again letting the opportunity to fulfill the dream slip away.
An independent, sovereign, democratic, peaceful, protected, developed, free, and happy Armenia is now waiting for our care like a newborn child. And we all, dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, must be a father and mother to it. We must be a father and mother to ourselves, understanding that in the first quarter of the 21st century, the helm of our destiny is now truly in our hands, and we must never again let that helm go from our hands.
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia, I congratulate all of us on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Armenia.
Glory to the martyrs and long live the Republic of Armenia.
- Nikol Pashinyan
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