Pashinyan: Armenia Is Living in Peace for the First Time in Its History

YEREVAN – Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated during Armenia’s first National Prayer Breakfast that 2025 is a very important year, because for the first time in its 34 years of independence, “we can say that peace has been established.”

Armenia is living in peace for the first time in its history, he said, adding that this has been a long journey—one we have often traveled without fully seeing or hearing the path that God has prepared for our people and state.

Pashinyan argued that what applies to the individual also applies to the state, emphasizing the importance of recognizing, seeing, and building the state’s relationship with God. He highlighted the need to incorporate biblical principles into political activity and public administration.

Speaking about the integrity of public officials, he said: “Integrity is a matter of reform, of regulation, of checks and balances, but true integrity is impossible without God’s presence, impossible without God’s word.”

Referring to the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast, Pashinyan said the peace process is an event that has taken place “between two prayer breakfasts,” which he believes may carry spiritual meaning.

He concluded his speech with Psalm 31, saying that the hours spent in this prayer-breakfast format provide spiritual strength to continue or reaffirm the path that, in his view, God has set for the Armenian people.