MP Ishkhan Saghatelyan of the opposition Hayastan alliance, who is currently in Strasbourg on a working visit, will be missing Friday’s rally in central Yerevan.

The rally of the opposition resistance movement starts at 7:30pm on France Square.

“For obvious reasons, I will not attend today’s rally. Naturally, the rally will be held and my colleagues will make statements on pressing issues,” Saghatelyan, who is the main speaker at opposition rallies, said in a Facebook live video, urging all to join it.

The lawmker said he held a number of meetings in the European Parliament over the past few days to share the approaches of the Armenian opposition on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia’s security and red lines.

The meetings also addressed the domestic political challenges and democratic processes in Armenia.

“The so-called Armenian authorities, particularly the parliamentary diplomacy, have carried out a careless and unprincipled work, which had led to a big gap. It should be made clear that the interests of Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian people in general are not properly represented and we have a lot of work to do here," he said.