Pashinyan speaks about his dream of flying to the moon and the  reasons why it hasn`t come true

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan touched upon why Armenians don't fly to the moon.

On March 17, speaking at the 3rd Conference on Innovations in the  Public Sector, the Armenian Prime Minister noted that the quality of  work in the public administration directly impacts the quality of  life of the population. And this connection isn't always and  everywhere recognized.

"In order to improve the lives of the population, we must improve  public sector management, and there is a tool for improving public  sector management: additional investments in this sector. In general,  our thinking is largely non-systemic and non-state, and we continue  to believe that we can avoid investing and still achieve  improvements, for example, in terms of enthusiasm, emotions,  dedication, etc., and the function of enthusiasm, emotions, and  dedication should never be underestimated," he said, noting that  without an infrastructure that transforms emotions and enthusiasm and  turns them into value, they will have no significant impact.

He noted that no citizen of Armenia has or can have the same  influence on their personal well-being as public administration.  Therefore, changing public attitudes toward public administration is  one of the most important tasks.

Pashinyan reiterated the thesis that there is not a single family or  person in Armenia who spends more on their personal well-being than  the state budget of Armenia spends on the personal well-being of each  individual. "Every drop of tax paid by every citizen of Armenia  returns tenfold to that citizen," Nikol Pashinyan emphasized.  Therefore,  any unresolved issue is a consequence of previously  unrealized investments in the public administration sector.

"Today, many professional and competent people work in the public  administration sector, but I also want to point out that knowledge  taken in isolation cannot yield results, because knowledge must be  placed in the right place and in the right system," he said. For  example, the prime minister continued, more than 400,000 scientists  worked on the American Apollo mission to the moon. This means that if  the country had had 250,000 scientists instead of 400,000, this  epochal program simply would not have been possible.

"Of course, in our thousand-year history, we have never planned, and  unfortunately, we do not plan today, to fly to the moon, and there is  only one reason for this: the absence of those 400,000 scientists and  specialists.Because if we had these 400,000 scientists and  specialists, could anyone explain why we would have abandoned the  idea of going to the moon? Forgive the crude example, but there's a  fable: "The fox, unable to reach the grapes, declares them unripe.  Going to the moon is a dream for us, a true dream, because spring has  only just begun, and there's still plenty of time before the grapes  ripen,"  Nikol Pashinyan concluded.