It is time for Armenians to realize their creative talent, prime minister says at LA gala event

Last year's political changes in Armenia must be sobering call upon the nation to encourage it to sense and use its creative talent to secure the country's good future, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in Los Angeles.

In his speech at a gala reception attracting around 700 participants, the premier also voiced a call for national unanimity ″to demonstrate the poeple's collective will″. In his words, the landmark changes should have motivated every single Armenian to realize his or her individual potential. ″Hence, time has now come for us to embark on our next step to feel and be able to use to use our collective might. This is what must bring about a historic revolution in our fate as the logical continuation of the individual's changing self-evaluation, [as the moment] when the individual felt his own power,″ he said.   

Pashinyan attended the reception accompanied by his wife, Anna Hakobyan, according to his official press service.

‟It is my pleasure to state that I every time experience pride on April 24 upon seeing the Armenians in California – and all over the world – stand up unanimously in a powerful campaign  to raise the world knowledge that we haven't abandoned – and are not going to abandon – our identity. We are the bearers of our history today, and we are enriched by the lessons of history – the cruel lessons indeed - the powerful lessons enabling us to change our people's historical fate and bring it out of the historical cycle we have been periodically experiencing," he said.

Pashinyan also called for nationwide efforts towards formulating and realizing the unanimous goal of making Armenia and Artsakh parts of a single fatherland.

To honor Pashinyan's visit to the United States, the organizers later screened the trailer of Velvet Revolution, a documentary produced by McKinsey & Company.