Reports that appeared on Monday night in several Telegram channels that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had allegedly resigned do not correspond to reality, Prime Minister's spokesperson Mane Gevorgyan told TASS.
"The news about the resignation is so unserious that it needs no comment," she said.
Protests have been taking place in Armenia for more than a month demanding Pashinyan's resignation. The opposition believes that the joint statement signed by the prime minister with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev on November 9 on the full cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh was in fact a capitulation. Opponents of the Armenian prime minister also blame him for the economic and social problems of the republic. Given the current situation in the country, Armenian President Armen Sargsyan called for early parliamentary elections and, prior to that, to transfer power to a government of national consent.
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