The cabinet approved the document at its Thursday session in Yerevan and will now submit it to the National Assembly, news.am reported at midday. Deputies take it up next. A governing majority makes the vote a formality; the text is the news.
Two chapters carry most of the new weight. The closing section declares a transition from the Third Republic to a Fourth, and Nikol Pashinyan told ministers the document holds no logic of the Karabakh movement, and framed the break as deliberate.
The same document that promises Baku a signature now promises Echmiadzin an audit.
Its church chapter commits the state to seek reform of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It names financial transparency, good conduct of the clergy, and, in the text's own wording, efforts toward the removal of the church's de facto head. News.am quoted the passage directly.
The energy chapter fixes dates. The life extension of the Armenian nuclear plant's second unit runs to 2036 and is to be completed in full, and a technology for a new nuclear unit is to be chosen by the end of 2027. Solar and wind reach 2,000 megawatts by 2040, storage at least 800 megawatts by 2031. A 400-kilovolt line to Iran is to be finished, another begun to Georgia, and the government commits itself to stimulate energy ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The morning file read the programme's foreign-policy list as a text that declines to choose. That list survives adoption intact. Now the method turns inward. The same document that promises Baku a signature now promises Echmiadzin an audit.