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President Armen Sarkissian, who is in the United Arab Emirates on official visit, participated at the reception offered for the heads of delegations participating to the major Abu Dhabi Sustainable Week International Forum where he made a statement.

“We all realize that we are living in the 21st century – a century which is very special, in which the world is interconnected, where things are happening with the speed of light. This is a totally different world,” the president said in his remarks, adding “There is an opinion that today globalization has stopped. I cannot agree with that. Globalization is not a macroprocess any more, it has become a microprocess. Peoples, trade, relations and ties, information in the current world are so interconnected that globalization will go on and will gain even a greater speed.”

In the president’s words the future is about “a rapid or a steadfast revolution” that will take place in science, in technologies and trade areas, in biology, as well as in our behavior.

“Rapid revolutions will take place also in our everyday life. They are taking place in the world even now, and Armenia is one example. Nearly one year ago, on April 9, I became President of the Republic of Armenia. The Revolution started days before that; it started with 5 individuals that later became100, 500, 1000, 5000… In two weeks, we had a revolution which united hundreds of thousands. All this was not organized; it was not carried out by a political force. It was a “Facebook” revolution, a revolution of the 21st century. It means that rapid revolutions are taking place also in the political life. The world is becoming more and more non-classical by day,” added Armen Sarkissian.

The president next brought the example of quantum physics as his put it “a totally different way to look at the natural world.”

“In the 21st century we are entering the period of global risks and the period of quantum behavior of politics. Social and political events in the 21st century will have a totally different behavior. Technologies of behavior of global risks, pandemics, or terrorist acts will differ from those of the 21st century. Risks appearing in New York of Washington can cause great changes all over the world. People may lose billions of dollars,” said Armen Sarkissian, adding if risks are of a quantum nature, solutions should be of a quantum nature too.