Security expert, MP Tigran Abrahamyan from the opposition I’m Honored bloc, deplored the authorities’ move to step up security measures in the parliament for the inaugural sitting on Monday.

“The authorities have confused the place of hostilities and border tensions, turning the National Assembly into a ‘training ground’,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Large police forces are deployed outside, while there are countless numbers of National Security Service officers wearing combat uniforms inside. A mood to dig trenches and install military infrastructures has gripped the National Assembly,” the MP said.