Civil Contract (Armenian: Քաղաքացիական պայմանագիր, K’aghak’atsiakan paymanagir, ՔՊ/KP, often shortened to Քաղպայմանագիր, K’aghpaymanagir) is a centrist political party in Armenia.

On 23 January 2013, opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan publicized a project to establish a new political process, which he called a "civil contract," in the newspaper Haykakan zhamanak (The Armenian Times).

[8] After mass strikes by organized labor and streets blockaded by over 300,000 protesters (including soldiers and Civil Contract members), Sargsyan resigned on April 23.

"[10] According to contemporaneous reporting by Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker, "Thousands of people are on the streets, cheering and hugging each other, jumping up and down and honking their horns... things happened so quickly, I don't think the crowd was expecting this, but it is exactly what they wanted.

Civil Contract confirmed its intention to participate in the 2021 Armenian parliamentary elections, with Nikol Pashinyan leading the party as its candidate for prime minister.

[16] On 31 August 2022, Nikol Pashinyan met with the President of the Council of the European Union, Charles Michel, in Brussels to discuss a peaceful resolution to the Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis.

According to Pashinyan, the mission became possible following negotiations held between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the EU on the sidelines of the first European Political Community summit in Prague.

[19] On 4 May 2023, Nikol Pashinyan stated, "Armenia is interested in deepening cooperation with the European Union" and that the EU mission would help "maintain international attention towards our region.

The party announced their goal to double the population of Armenia within the next 20 years, ensure human rights and freedoms of all citizens, eliminate all forms of corruption, and to further strengthen and develop the economy, while protecting the environment.

[26] Prior to the 2018 election, Civil Contract was in favor of developing closer ties with the European Union and supported Armenia's inclusion in a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the EU.

[27] However, following his electoral victory, Pashinyan changed his official position and announced his support of Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union.

In October 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan stated that he sees a lot of potential growth in both economic and political ties with the EU.

Nikol Pashinyan stated, "CEPA is a strategic program for development of our country, and it can become one of the cornerstones of our reforms agenda" and "I believe it is in Europe's interests to have a stable, democratic partner in the unstable region of the South Caucasus, a partner in the shape of developing and progressive Armenia that shares common European values with the union.

"[30] The party's 2018 electoral program stated that it believes in deepening relations with China, Japan, India, Iran, Georgia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as securing international recognition of the Republic of Artsakh and the Armenian genocide.

[31] In its 2021 electoral program, the party declared that the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the "realization of the Artsakh Armenians' right to self-determination" and the implementation of the principle of remedial secession would be among its priorities.

[35] On 3 September 2023, during an interview, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that it was a strategic mistake for Armenia to solely rely on Russia to guarantee its security.

Pashinyan stated, "Moscow has been unable to deliver and is in the process of winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus region" and "the Russian Federation cannot meet Armenia's security needs.

In the long term, the European Union and Armenia are determined to strengthen their economic ties by working to unlock the full potential of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement.

Pashinyan stated, "We have now in practical terms frozen our participation in this treaty" and "membership of the CSTO was under review" during a live broadcast interview.

"[42] On 2 March 2024, Nikol Pashinyan advised that Armenia would officially "apply to become a candidate for EU membership in the coming days, within a month at most.

"[43][44] On 9 September 2024, prime minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that the issue of starting the EU membership process has become part of the Armenian political agenda.

And if we have serious ambition to achieve fundamental changes in public–political relations, we need to try to work ourselves out of the Armenian traditional funding mechanisms of political activity.