Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan attended the award ceremony titled "The Hero of Our Times" at Karen Demirchyan Sports Concert Complex in Yerevan. RA President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Arman Dilanyan, legislator, executive were also present at the event. , representatives of the judiciary, local self-government bodies and other officials.
The awards were presented to 12 participants of the "Hero of Our Times" program prepared by the Public Relations and Information Center of the RA Prime Minister's Office. The awards were presented by RA President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, Head of the Prime Minister's Office Araik Harutyunyan, Head of the NA "Civil Contract" faction Hayk Konjoryan, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Narek Mkrtchyan, Minister of High-tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan, Artistic Director of Hovhannes Tumanyan National Puppet Theater Ruben Babayan, "Hero of Our Times 2023" award winner Sirvard Berberyan, "Hero of Our Times 2023" award winner Khachatur Nikoghosyan, "Vega" company founder, general director Yuri Afrikyan.
Before the presentation of the main award, Nikol Pashinyan made a speech and congratulated everyone on the occasion of the award ceremony. "The main purpose of today's award ceremony is to talk about heroism, the everydayness of heroism and the heroism of the everyday. What do I mean?
In general, when we talk about heroes with the formulas known to us, in fact, we imagine them as a different type of people who were born in a special place, grew up in special conditions, who have special perceptions about the state and the homeland we glorify them, but somehow we also cut them off and cut them off from us."
According to the Prime Minister, the most important expression of heroism should not be that heroism is done by the few people who were simply capable of doing it, but the perception of heroism and heroism should be that the same heroism would be done by tens of thousands of others, just at that moment. the person shown in that heroism got there himself because of the circumstances, that's why he did that heroism himself.
"When we speak of heroism, of course, we mention our martyrs first. We cut our martyrs from us if we do not admit that each one of us, not ten more, not twenty more, not fifty and a hundred more , but there are tens of thousands of people in the Republic of Armenia who, being in the same place in the same situation under the same conditions, would do the same thing," said Nikol Pashinyan.
The prime minister noted that the reason for the lack of this approach is that there is no heroism in everyday life and emphasized. "Our everyday life is not heroic in the sense that heroism and heroism is so far from us, it is so different, it is so related to another person, so another family, another clan, that it is someone else's doing. But with this award ceremony, we want First of all, we want to emphasize that heroism belongs to each of us, heroism is every day, heroism is everywhere, and if so, it is in these conditions that we will perceive our heroes as people living next to us, who are not sacrificed by us, but simply that they were in that same place, in that same position, and did the same thing that any one of us, thousands of us, tens of thousands of us would do.
And so what to do with this logic every day?
Every day there is something to do: to work, to create, to pay the taxes prescribed by the law, so that the hero whom we push forward has a chance to die, and also not to die, to have a chance not to die, having modern means of defense, having modern education, a developing state with modern conditions and modern concepts. having, etc. Let it not appear that we are in any way disparaging the heroism of our fallen brethren today.
On the contrary, I said and I will say it again: they fell so that the Republic of Armenia would live and the Republic of Armenia would develop, and today we report to our fallen brothers that the Republic of Armenia lives and the Republic of Armenia develops, including thanks to your heroism.
And we should not associate our heroism with dying and falling in all cases, not in all times and in all places. let it be special, exclusive, rare, and creating, creating, enriching, enriching, flourishing and flourishing become everyday, to be happy, to be happy, to be empowered and to be empowered."
Nikol Pashinyan thanked all the award winners and emphasized once again that their heroism lies in the fact that they do not expect to receive answers to questions from others, but try to find the answers to those questions themselves, they are their own trust and they create themselves. "And with this they give answers to questions that people may expect from the Government, and we thank you today that you are taking it upon yourself to formulate answers to some questions, that among others, easing the work of the Government, Parliament, state and local self-government bodies," said the Prime Minister.
Presenting the main prize to Armen Martirosyan, the founder of the "Children's Health Foundation of Armenia", Nikol Pashinyan noted:
"In recent years, we have significantly increased funding in the healthcare sector, implemented very serious and deep changes, but on the other hand, we understand that not in all cases and not in every place, we are able to address expectations, reach all the people who need support. are in need, in need of rescue, in need of treatment, and I want to present the main prize to a person who, through his public activity, is able to consolidate other people, find people who need urgent help and find to the people who are ready to participate in that emergency to save lives."
