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The aim of the present study is to explore the political discourse of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan which embodies the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the sessions of the UN General Assembly in New York.The study employs transitivity analysis in order to reveal main participants,different process types as well as their frequency and communicative implications in the speeches.The speeches under study were obtained from the official website of the UN General Assembly（http://www.gadebate.un.org/）.The study relies on the UAM Corpus Tool for the qualitative analysis.The results revealed that among the major process types,material processes dominate,whereas mental process type is used minimally in the speeches representing 7.24% of the data analyzed.The dominant use of the material processes show that,Pashinyan and his government are the main actors working on a number of concrete projects in an attempt to create a sense of development progression towards the resolution of the conflict.The minimal use of the mental processes also implies that Pashinyan gives few assurances and promises to the people,and rather tells the things as they are.In addition,relational processes are found to be the second most frequently used process type in the addresses.This means that Pashinyan identifies himself with the people,asserts himself as the first Armenian leader which mandates him to carry out certain policies,which hitherto former Armenian authorities couldn’t do.His use of the relational processes explains how he is going to use his new position for advance democracy and reforms.The study concludes that the PM mobilizes various types of transitivity processes and participants in order to express his views.The linguistic devices of transitivity featured within the speeches can be a good linguistic account to understand his construction of the issue.It’s been observed that these processes mainly serve in helping the speaker appeal to the masses to convey his ideology in order to create the necessary conditions for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.