Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took part in the opening ceremony of the first World Armenian Summit at the National Gallery of Armenia with his wife, Anna Hakobyan. Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Arayik Harutyunyan, Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan, Chief Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan, Yerevan Deputy Mayor Tigran Avinyan, many Syrian-Armenian officials representing various fields, other officials were also present at the event. :

Prime Minister Pashinyan made a speech in which he specifically stated:

"I welcome holding the first World Armenian Summit and all its participants. In the context of the Armenia-Diaspora dialogue, this gathering is rightly expected and appropriate, especially these days, when it is obvious to everyone that Armenia-Diaspora relations are undergoing profound substantive, socio-psychological, and organizational changes, regardless of our will.

These changes happen not because someone wants them but because global processes force such changes. These changes have nothing to do with the revolution in Armenia in 2018 nor the tragedy of the 44-day war in 2020. Both the course and the war were an occasion for us to record the obvious, and it is obvious that time has an inevitable effect on the essence and content of the Armenian Diaspora.

What does Diaspora Armenian mean in an era when a person can spend seven days a week in 6 different parts of the world? What does it mean to be a Diaspora Armenian in a situation where you can send and receive letters, photos, and videos from anywhere in the world within seconds and establish direct contact with anyone 24 hours a day? What does community life mean in a situation where Armenian literature, the Armenian press, and books are available through the Internet at any time and in any place, and any Armenian can talk to any other Armenian at any time, generate, share, spread any idea in a situation when Armenia is on the list of the world's leading countries in terms of internet access and freedom.

These are questions that are extremely important for all of us to answer. And we believe that the answers to these questions will change a lot in the relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Diaspora. We think something like this with the conviction that Armenians worldwide have great potential. And a country with such worldwide resources, such as Armenia, should not have problems. And if it has, it means that we have done a lot wrong and are doing it not only in Armenia but also in Armenia-Diaspora relations.

The biggest mistake, in my opinion, is that the Armenia-Diaspora conversation usually begins, proceeds, and ends with the truths known to us, or as it is customary to say, universally approved facts. This is certainly not bad. This is even good, but it could be better because it does not expand our understanding of ourselves and the world. This, in turn, does not allow us to perceive and record the changes in the world at a sufficient speed, let alone take advantage of the opportunities and manage the challenges.

The first world Armenian summit is taking place in a situation where many ideas and dreams about the world, the region, and even ourselves have been shaken, sometimes even collapsed. Our proposal and vision are not to remain under those ruins but to try to find new opportunities, to try to make the Republic of Armenia, in particular, a platform for the formation and development of new ideas, new dreams, and new approaches, with an independent, sovereign, safe, accessible, developed Armenia as the core. , a democratic republic, because any Armenian anywhere in the globalized world can have anything: welfare, work, money, family. And there is only one exception, and that one thing is the Republic of Armenia, the pride and happiness of being a citizen, which the majority of people in the hall carry.

The first World Armenian Summit aims to become a platform and a meeting place for people who want and are ready to make the state interest of the Republic of Armenia a pan-Armenian plan, to contribute to the advancement of that interest, to support the institutional establishment and strategic development of statehood as a 21st century a modern state adequate to the challenges.

Thank you all for your participation and willingness."

The summit will have a total of 8-panel discussions and 17 simultaneous sessions, discussing issues from Armenia's security to the protection of Armenian interests in the world, from repatriation to education, healthcare, and agriculture, from crisis communities to Diaspora youth. The summit has 600 participants from 50 countries. More than 100 speakers from 15 countries will take part.