Protest held outside Armenian presidential palace

Panorama

Armenia –

Opposition leaders and supporters on Friday staged a protest outside the Armenian presidential palace in central Yerevan hosting a CSTO summit.

Demonstrators demanding Nikol Pashinyan's resignation marched towards the presidential palace from France Square in the morning to tell the CSTO foreign ministers that the current authorities have no mandate to negotiate on behalf of Armenia and Artsakh.

Opposition MPs made statements and protesters chanted anti-Pashinyan slogans near the palace heavily guarded by police officers.

“Today, we communicated a clear message,” Hayastan bloc MP Gegham Manukyan said. “Every delegation [visiting Armenia] now realizes that the situation in Armenia has changed and one should not make long-term plans with those in power."

He reiterated that there is a political crisis in Armenia, which the Resistance Movement is striving to resolve. Afterwards, Manukyan urged protesters to return to France Square to plan their further actions.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS