About 5,000 people demonstrated in the Armenian capital Yerevan to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, accused by the opposition of wanting to give away all of Karabakh to Azerbaijan after he told lawmakers last month that the “international community calls on Armenia to scale down demands on Karabakh”.

“We are launching a popular protest movement to force Pashinyan to resign,” Parliament Vice Speaker and opposition leader Ishkhan Saghatelyan told AFP ahead of the rally.

He added, “He is a traitor, he lied to the people,” accusing Pashinyan of “wanting to give away Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.”

He continued, “He does not have a popular mandate to do so.”

“The protests will not stop until Pashinyan resigns,” he warned.