Police officers were seen detaining protesters at a huge rally calling for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Monday.

Footage shows people being forcibly dragged away, including Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, one of the organisers and head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Zarzand Gabrielyan, head of the Police Public Relations and Information Department, said that 226 people had been detained in total.

Ahead of the demonstrations, Gurgen Melikyan, one of the leaders of the 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement', said that the organisation had nominated Galstanyan for the post of Prime Minister of Armenia.

Protests began earlier this month, over Pashinyan's decision to start border delimitation proceedings with Azerbaijan and to hand over four border settlements to Baku.

Galstanyan indicated that opposition party factions would initiate impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan over the territorial concessions, while the PM warned that 'war will break out' if he did not conduct the talks.

Following the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September.

It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'.

Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.

Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, while last year the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim - but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.