“You can’t realize any future plan without the sufficient reserve of optimism,” PM Pashinyan told lawmakers in parliament during debates of the 2022 report of the government action plan.

“And the key question is the following, in these turbulent times, is there the necessary reserve of optimism in Armenia for not only speaking or planning the future but also building and realizing it? My answer is unequivocal, despite all difficulties and hardships, there is the required optimism in Armenia for speaking about the future, planning and building the future, I am convinced in this,” Pashinyan said.

He noted that the news, public debates and the international situation don’t give such confidence. At the same time, he noted that at this moment 55,000 apartments – 6% of the entire housing stock (12,2% in multi-apartment buildings) in the history of Armenia - are under development in Armenia.

“And today, not only the traditionally wealthy people are buying apartments, but also the middle class, who have received the chance to work, create and see the results of their work due to the government’s economic policy,” Pashinyan said.

In times of border instability, security vulnerability, when the world order is collapsing, tens of thousands of citizens are buying new apartments in Armenia, and thousands of investors are building apartments. “I believe that this can only mean one thing – the people believe in the government’s peace agenda, people believe that there will be peace and that they will have the chance to live happily and create in their own homeland, otherwise there’d be no sense in buying new homes, moreover building them. People believe in the ruling majority’s There Is a Future motto,” Pashinyan said.