In his speech at the “Comprehensive Security and Resilience 2025” international conference, Nikol Pashinyan also spoke about the role of the army in Armenia’s security strategy.
According to the RA Prime Minister, the most important approaches related to Armenia’s security have been revised.
Today, Yerevan has wider opportunities to acquire armaments, but the army, according to Nikol Pashinyan’s formula-tion, should be the last in the line of the country’s security tools.
“We have constantly said that we need a strong army. But this is also one of those topics where we must ask our-selves: what does a strong army mean?
Stronger than one, two, three, or four conditional opponents? If it turns out that one conditional opponent has two or three super-strong involved parties with it, it will turn out that our strategies are zero,” Pashinyan noted. He emphasized that the programs on how strong the same army should be stem from the formulation of the army’s main task.
“The RA army has no business outside the internationally recognized territory of the RA, it has no task. The task of the army is to ensure the protection of the internationally recognized territory of the RA. This is the strategy, of legitimacy in the case of the army, stressed Pashinyan.
According to Pashinyan, thanks to this approach, Yerevan has incomparably greater opportunities to acquire weapons today. “In the past, Armenia’s arms and armaments acquisition markets were strictly limited not only by geography, but also by accessibility. Now our markets are essentially unlimited.
Why? Because no country, when discussing the issue of military-technical cooperation with us, has any fear that these armaments could be used for internationally illegitimate purposes. No one can dispute the right of the Republic of Armenia to protect its sovereign internationally recognized territory,” emphasized RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.