Clashes erupted in Armenia today between protesters and police, in another sign of the crisis rocking the Caucasus country, where the opposition has been calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nicole Pasinian for weeks.
Since mid-April, several opposition parties have staged demonstrations against Pasinyan, whom he accuses of making many concessions to Azerbaijan after Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh’s pocket.
Earlier in the day, several hundred protesters gathered in central Yerevan and blocked the entrance to a government building. The clashes erupted when some protesters tried to break the police cordon around the building.
According to police, 111 people were charged with “hooliganism” and later released. Three police officers were injured and had to be given first aid.
Parliament Deputy Speaker Ishan Sagatelian called on civil servants to distance themselves from Pasinyan and “not share with him the responsibility for the destruction of the country”.
Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed twice, in the 1990s and in 2020, over control of Nagorno-Karabakh. For the opposition, the defeat in the 2020 war is a national humiliation and that is why it is calling for the removal of Pasinian, whose party, however, won the parliamentary elections last year, consolidating its power.
Source: AMPE
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