02:19Supporters and opponents of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gathered in Yerevan on Monday, as the months-long political crisis is continuing in the country.
Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan could be seen joining thousands of protesters in Yerevan’s Republic square, where the prime minister addressed his supporters afterwards.
Opposition protesters, in turn, marched in various parts of the city starting from Baghramyan Avenue.
Protests against Pashinyan flared up again on Thursday after a group of military officers wrote a letter asking the prime minister to step down.
Despite the renewed pressure, Pashinyan has refused to resign, called the army letter ‘an attempted coup’ and tried to remove the Chief of the General Staff from office.
According to the president’s press service, the President of the Armenian Republic Armen Sarkissian did not sign Pashinyan’s order and returned the document to the prime minister.
Anti-Pashinyan protests originally began in November last year after he signed the Russian-brokered deal to end fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Under the terms of the trilateral agreement, a number of Nagorno-Karabakh districts have officially handed control over to Azerbaijan.
Armenia: Supporters and opponents of PM Pashinyan take to Yerevan streets
Supporters and opponents of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gathered in Yerevan on Monday, as the months-long political crisis is continuing in the country.
Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan could be seen joining thousands of protesters in Yerevan’s Republic square, where the prime minister addressed his supporters afterwards.
Opposition protesters, in turn, marched in various parts of the city starting from Baghramyan Avenue.
Protests against Pashinyan flared up again on Thursday after a group of military officers wrote a letter asking the prime minister to step down.
Despite the renewed pressure, Pashinyan has refused to resign, called the army letter ‘an attempted coup’ and tried to remove the Chief of the General Staff from office.
According to the president’s press service, the President of the Armenian Republic Armen Sarkissian did not sign Pashinyan’s order and returned the document to the prime minister.
Anti-Pashinyan protests originally began in November last year after he signed the Russian-brokered deal to end fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Under the terms of the trilateral agreement, a number of Nagorno-Karabakh districts have officially handed control over to Azerbaijan.
Supporters and opponents of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gathered in Yerevan on Monday, as the months-long political crisis is continuing in the country.
Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan could be seen joining thousands of protesters in Yerevan’s Republic square, where the prime minister addressed his supporters afterwards.
Opposition protesters, in turn, marched in various parts of the city starting from Baghramyan Avenue.
Protests against Pashinyan flared up again on Thursday after a group of military officers wrote a letter asking the prime minister to step down.
Despite the renewed pressure, Pashinyan has refused to resign, called the army letter ‘an attempted coup’ and tried to remove the Chief of the General Staff from office.
According to the president’s press service, the President of the Armenian Republic Armen Sarkissian did not sign Pashinyan’s order and returned the document to the prime minister.
Anti-Pashinyan protests originally began in November last year after he signed the Russian-brokered deal to end fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Under the terms of the trilateral agreement, a number of Nagorno-Karabakh districts have officially handed control over to Azerbaijan.