Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the Summit of the Future on September 23, held during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. 

During his speech, Prime Minister Pashinyan stated, "All the problems we are facing today are directly or indirectly related to the decisions made or haven't been made at some point in the past, and the same we can say about today's successes and achievements. We cannot change the past; we cannot change a lot, even today, because today is, to some extent, a part of the past. But shaping the future is today's most important task. The agenda of our actions is also known: Peace, Security, Prosperity, Freedom, Justice, Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, and Climate change. But what is of high importance is the concept that we should put on the basis of our vision of the future. And consequently, how to build the future. It may sound strange, but the most important thing we can do for the future is to create positive narratives and focus on the possibilities of creating the foundations for them, regardless of whether they exist at the moment or not."

He added, "I can hardly remember a positive speech on behalf of myself or other leaders on international platforms. And there are objective reasons for this: there is little material for positive discourse. And maybe it's because, in the past, there was very little or no positive narrative at all. We usually come to the UN to declare how bad it is going to be because there are a lot of facts proving this everywhere, so it doesn't require much effort to see them. Efforts should be made to see the prerequisites of a good future and think about them because what happens in reality first happens in our minds. My party adopted the slogan 'There is a future' under the conditions when there seemed to be no hope for optimism in our region. Now, this happens globally. And at this Summit of the Future, I want to voice that belief of 'there is a future,' and by doing this, I want to have my portion of the contribution."

Pashinyan emphasized, "And this will provide room for positive thinking and for talking about the possibilities. Yes, for now, let's only talk since 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' Therefore, it is necessary to start with the good words. It is necessary to bring forward the slogan 'There is a future' as a theorem and to work to prove it. Let's do it."