Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was present at the ceremonial session of the Investigative Committee dedicated to the employee's day.

The Prime Minister congratulated the Chairman of the Central Committee, Argishti Kyaramyan, and all the employees on the occasion of the professional day. According to Nikol Pashinyan, on this day for five years now, he has been visiting the IC, and every time he tries to find an answer to the question, what has changed during this time, where are they headed, and what is the vector of the changes that are taking place? 

"In general, this is a critical topic because sometimes, due to a global event, we do not have the time, mood, or desire to stop and take an inventory; what has changed, and what are these changes? What is the assessment of these changes? :

I want to make a few notes, which, to be honest, are actually on an emotional level; I hope that during the discussions and debates after my statements, it will be possible to find out empirically how much these emotional claims are also objective. And I feel and see that, for example, in the Republic of Armenia, in particular, in the field of responsibility of the Investigative Committee, in fact, the lion's share of the preliminary investigation, 90 percent or more, from January 1, 2023, the more significant part will be under the responsibility of the Investigative Committee. I think that in Armenia, sorry for the expression of that word, the institution of "making a case" has either disappeared or is on the verge of being abolished, or we are going that way, or we have made a lot of progress on that way, so that "institute" at all in Armenia who does not exist. This is a logical and self-evident phenomenon in any self-respecting state.

But it should also be noted that we are very conscientious in proceeding along this path. Today in the preliminary investigation process in Armenia, the fact is a key, a pillar. The work takes place with the truth, around the point. This is a straightforward, maybe even unnecessary, protocol for the profession, but I think we should do this protocol.

The next record I want to make and my feeling and observation show it is as follows. In our country, the preliminary investigation is becoming more and more fundamental, derived from the previous points. This is also extremely important, and I must also emphasize that a conscientious examination does not mean, again, sorry for that word, a square test because sometimes there are compromises during the study and as a result. I want to emphasize that these are compromises that are provided by law. This is very important; they are legal, and perhaps the only purpose of these compromises is to protect the interests of the state and the public.

In this regard, I also want to emphasize that as a result of the activity of the Investigative Committee and the change in the quality of the preliminary investigation, the active process of restoring the damages caused to the state and the public is critical. Of course, we are trying to solve this issue through more global institutional investments and reforms, but I would also like to emphasize this circumstance," said Nikol Pashinyan.

The prime minister added that investigations of cases related to the 44-day war are opening new layers. "If there is a routine investigation, the results and goals of which are usually the preservation of the rule of law, the equality of all people before the law, the research related to the 44-day war, I suppose, should add another layer to this process, which, under normal conditions, with the Investigative Committee and the investigation had no connection, or at least we did not often pay any attention to that point of view.

Those works are essential in terms of knowing ourselves, recognizing our problems, even delving into the layers of our socio-psychological sphere, and even facing and dealing with the foundations and theory of our state. And it is here that the investigation that I said should be much more fundamental because the study of these cases will have a key and cornerstone significance on the further development of our state. After all, our country is obviously at an essential crossroads, a critical crossroads.

In general, there is such a layer in the preliminary investigation of these cases, which we only deal with, so to speak, noisy issues. It is essential because the preliminary investigation, by and large only the investigation of criminal cases, gives a lot of information about us, about our public relations, about state-public relations, state-public relations, interests, nuances, and quality, and this is also very important. It is a function, and I am happy to emphasize that we have reached such layers. That, of course, depends on what I said in the first part. When there is a fundamental examination, when there is a determination to follow the facts to the end, on the way to track these facts, we make additional, perhaps unexpected discoveries about ourselves, about our history, about the functioning of our state institutions, about the theories of the foundations of our state. And I want to highlight today.

In general, yes, I must say, and I am even more convinced that we see a continuous change in the quality of the work of the Investigative Committee. This is a necessary process that needs to happen all the time. I have never said, and I will not say, because it would not be correct to assume that the work of the Investigative Committee or any state body has reached some point from zero. No, it is inherently wrong to say such a thing, but it is essential that we, in our work, all the links of our state, have the ambition of better quality work every day. Of course, this depends on many realities, especially in your case; legal certainty of the law, as lawyers say, is critical.

As the Chairman of the Investigative Committee mentioned, the legislative changes are enormous in the field. A new code of criminal procedure has been adopted, which also brings new challenges because any new law must be adapted, and the systems must also be able to make the application as smooth as possible. In this regard, it is also essential that the state system and the Investigative Committee employees have a robust system of social guarantees. This is our belief.

I keep saying that in countries with such a social situation, when, for example, in the judicial system, in the investigative approach, the issue of changes in salaries and social guarantees is raised. Usually, the reaction of the general public is the following, so to speak, instead of the socially insecure class problems being solved conventionally speaking, the issues of the elite are solved. But my conviction deepens more and more that we make such changes, not for the beneficiaries of the salary, but those citizens, for the people, because in the end, quality or poor quality investigation brings with it a better or worse quality of protection of citizens' rights. :

We must constantly instill this awareness among our public that the public servant should have a decent salary because the public servant provides a service to the citizen. By and large, an investigation is service delivery. The first beneficiaries of this service are the state and citizens. The accused should also be provided with quality service because the accused was not deprived of his rights, the victim, and so on. Therefore, we must be principled in this process, and the higher the quality of these services, our experience has shown, the greater the state revenues will be because, in recent years, we have increased state budget revenues by billions. As a result of what? Also, as a result of these factors, I mentioned.

The more we strengthen the system of social guarantees of public service, the fairer social environment we will have, and the more we will be able to provide quality service to the most vulnerable classes because our work is ultimately enclosed in terms of state-citizen-legal system-law-justice. In general, it is acceptable to say, according to classical logic, it is said that the state is an instrument of violence, but in our understanding, the state is an instrument of justice. The more established the legal system in the state, the more installed the institution of equality before the law, the higher the quality of the preliminary investigation, and the more developed the judicial system, the more we have a state. We aim to build an environment where people can live, create, and happy, and be accessible.

You know, it may also seem that these goals and emphasis of mine are not the most appropriate for the current period, in the conditions of the security challenges that are happening around us, known to all of us. Still, I think, on the contrary, that, especially in such situations, we should address such problems to formulate the guidelines and objectives correctly. Because of these strategic goals, their formulation and recording depend on the decisions we will make today, or rather, the assessment of those decisions. Did we make the right decision or the wrong one?

Generally speaking, if you exaggerate a bit, there is no right or wrong decision. Or instead, freedom and bad choices are evaluated according to the strategic perspective goal you set before yourself. In other words, the decision is a decision to go in some direction. So how do you decide whether a given conclusion is right or wrong? It depends on where you want to go because if you want to go in one direction, depending on the choice of perspective or strategic goal, the same decision can be right or wrong. This is a vital record.

We, you know, have to record, and I have been talking about it more and more recently, and I am talking more and more because I have formed a belief about it that the basis of all our actions should be the Republic of Armenia, the state and the state. Interest, because the state interest is the formula that is formed from the collection of all possible goods, both of the citizen and the people, and identity and the past, I would like us to focus on this direction, the Republic of Armenia, more and more specifically political, state, on the problem of turning it into an international institution and on this foundation, we will ensure the permanence of our form. In this sense, the practical work of all our state institutions, the socio-psychological regulation with which we work, is essential.

It is critical to note that we should not get tired of studying every day. But we should not get tired of learning from our successes and failures every day, and we should be filled with the determination that the responsibility of the millennial destiny of the Republic of Armenia is placed on our shoulders today. We must give strength to each other so that our knees do not bend in this responsible way. I am sure that we will move forward with clear steps. For that, one thing needs to be decided: to formulate the problem of what we want. And we want the Republic of Armenia to be a powerful, free, peaceful, and happy state.

Dear employees of the Investigative Committee, allow me once again to congratulate you on the occasion of the professional day and thank you for the work done," said Prime Minister Pashinyan.

The Prime Minister awarded the Mkhitar Ghosh Medal to Azat Gevorgyan, Head of the Main Department of Supervision of the Activities of Territorial Investigative Departments of the Investigative Committee, Armen Hovhannisyan, Senior Investigator of the Especially Important Cases Investigation Department of the Central Military Investigative Department of the Central Committee, for his contribution to the strengthening of law and order.

Nikol Pashinyan also awarded a group of KP employees with a commemorative medal of the RA Prime Minister.