Without arresting Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and the government, the General Staff continues its criminal inaction, ex-head of the National Security Service, politician David Shahnazaryan noted.

"Without arresting Pashinyan and the government, the General Staff continues its criminal inaction," he noted. 

According to him, the current authorities "have brought the country to the brink of collapse.

"The Armenian Prime Minister, the government will no longer be able to make adequate decisions in this critical situation for the Armenian people."

"The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia shall ensure the defense, security, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders," he added "It is the constitutional duty of the Armed Forces to immediately neutralize the threat it has identified."

"In this crucial situation for the Armenian statehood, the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces was obliged to take immediate measures to eliminate the greatest threat to the security of the Republic of Armenia, to arrest Prime Minister Pashinyan and members of the government," he added.