2024-03-24 02:15:15
On January 18, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Ministry of Justice for the department’s 2023. to discuss the activity report.
Before the discussion, the Prime Minister made two emphasis. “First, the Ministry of Justice is involved in the work of the demarcation commission. I want to emphasize the strategic importance of the demarcation process, because, of course, there are very serious political, socio-psychological, and security issues here.
Understandably and obviously, we live in a world that is changing at a very high speed and in unpredictable directions, and it is very important to finally answer the following question: what is our vision and formula for ensuring the security of the Republic of Armenia? We have had many discussions on this issue in various formats, and my conclusion is that the cornerstone of ensuring the security of the Republic of Armenia is legitimacy. What does this mean: This means that we must formulate the problem very clearly, of course the problem or the formulation is very obvious, but we must not hesitate to re-record this, and the record is as follows that we set a problem for the Republic of Armenia to establish and develop in its internationally recognized territory as a legal, democratic state. And this should be the strategic perception of the future of our country: the Republic of Armenia as a sovereign, legal, democratic state, and a social state. Of course, this list can be continued, but I am talking about the primary directions at the moment.
A question arises, what is the territory of the Republic of Armenia? Actually, I want to emphasize again that we don’t have to find an answer to this question, but we just have to take the existing answer off the shelves and put it on the table. It will be difficult for me to say how many years, but since a long time ago, the size of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia has been recorded in the land balance sheet of the Republic of Armenia. In other words, the government of the Republic of Armenia accepts the land balance sheet of the Republic of Armenia from time to time. It happened in 2018. ago, it happened in 2018. then we, after all, must make this record and base our legitimacy, legitimate questions, expectations and emphasis on this foundation and logic. At the same time, I connect the legitimacy of our actions and positions on a conceptual level and condition them within the framework of the logic of the concept “the motherland is the state”.
But why am I saying this today, now, at the Ministry of Justice, because what was said means that the role of our legal community in ensuring external security will increase. This is a very important emphasis, I think it’s an obvious thing, but there are obvious things that all of us, or maybe at least I, or many colleagues, don’t have in our daily emphasis, because you see, when we say security, we usually mean the military, the Armed Forces, we understand diplomacy. Both are correct, that is, there is no problem here, but we forget the very legitimacy to ensure security, the function of ensuring which is primarily our legal community. And I want to make this emphasis in the presence of the Minister of Justice, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly, of course I also want to emphasize the role of the Constitutional Court in this process, in general, the role of the judicial system. I want us to engage in this kind of work, which, in my opinion, will significantly increase the effectiveness of security in this cycle.
But I say again, we should put the subtitle of legitimacy under the concept of “the motherland is the state”, because sometimes legitimacy can get a very wide range from different points of view. And in that case, when I say scope, I mean the sovereign, internationally recognized territory and borders of the Republic of Armenia.”