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During his meeting with the representatives of the Armeinian community in Astana, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan urged them to work.

He noted that soon legislative changes will be made in Armenia to make the opportunities for evolving business activity more accessible.

"Our main goal is to encourage people. As it was the case during the revolution, we told them, my dear people, you are powerful, get up and stand up for your rights. Now we are saying the same thing regarding business. Now our task is to have hundreds of thousands of people do something in terms of economics, so that people can understand that it’s only through work that we can solve the existing problems," he said.
Pashinyan said that if they were driven by sitting at home and waiting for the government, these issues would not be resolved.

"Poverty is a serious problem in Armenia today, and it’s first of all the responsibility of the government to find a solution to the problem. But let me tell you something: will the government be able to find a solution to overcome the poverty of the family if the family members do not do anything to improve that situation? " he said.

The Acting PM noted that during their meetings in the villages, people stated: "We wish we had work and could work".

"Then, after a few inquiries, we find out that in the same village where we were asked for workplaces, there is a vacancy and the owner says that he has nor been able to employ anyone for two years because people do not want to work since they receive poverty benefits which equals 25,000 drams. It has come to the point that people are slaughtering their cows so that they can receive poverty benefits, or they do not buy a TV so that can receive poverty benefits," he said.
According to Pashinyan, 350,000 people are employed in Armenia and they need to provide for 800,000 people.

"800 thousand people demand from those 350 thousand, 350 thousand people are working quite hard, and 800 thousand people want them to get out of their way and work even harder," he stressed.