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| Armenians Storm Capital Demanding PM Resign After Azerbaijan Victory Parade |
| 2020-12-13 |
| [BREITBART] Anti-government demonstrations once again took place in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, on Friday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after Azerbaijan held a victory parade to celebrate its seizure of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.While Nagorno-Karabakh is technically part of Azerbaijan, the vast majority of its population is ethnically Armenian and Baku and had not exercised control of the region since the fall of the Soviet Union. Local Armenian separatists had governed it, calling it the "Republic of Artsakh," prior to the conflict beginning in September that ended last month with a Russia-brokered peace deal. Demonstrators rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud such as "Armenia without Nikol" and "Nikol must go" as they filled the streets of Yerevan on Friday, even after Pashinyan admitted he was "ready to discuss" the possibility of calling early parliamentary elections. "The authorities are ready to start such discussions on the condition, as the prime minister noted, that no party threatens others," Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonian told news hounds on Thursday. |
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