At a conference today in Yerevan dedicated to World Intellectual Property Day, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared that there is nothing more valuable than ideas, and added that the defense of intellectual property rights is a topic of major concern in the world today.

The Armenian Prime Minister added that the history of the last one hundred years has shown that ideas have outstripped material property in terms of development and progress.

Pashinyan made a mental leap of sorts when he linked this concept to recent political developments in Armenia and his philosophical outlook for the future.

He said that the importance of intellectual property fully dovetails with the ideology on whose basis change has been achieved in Armenia.

Pashinyan said that his oft repeated concept that nothing happens unless a mental thought process takes place beforehand.

“Anything around us is real and exists physically. All of it existed in the mind beforehand, in the minds of us all, starting from art and ending in the most complex of technological creations,” Pashinyan said.

The Armenian Prime Minister said his government would make the defense of intellectual property rights a priority because the world economy is based on the principle.

Pashinyan concluded by saying that when he calls for an “economic revolution in Armenia” he means the unleashing of the country’s intellectual potential.

“The day has passed when we ask ourselves whether we have oil or not. It’s no longer important if we have gas or molybdenum. Today, we must ask whether we have ideas and the capacity for intellectual endeavor."