Armenia PM warns of coup attempt after army seeks his resignation
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Tensions between Nikol Pashinyan and the military are rising as a new protest movement against the PM gains momentum.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has warned of an “attempted coup” against him after top military officials demanded he resigns over his handling of last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Also under pressure from a growing protest movement, Pashinyan on Thursday announced that he had fired Onik Gasparyan, the head of the army’s General Staff, and urged the military to listen to only his orders. “The most important problem now is to keep the power in the hands of the people, because I consider what is happening to be a military coup,” Pashinyan said, in an address to the nation broadcast on Facebook.More Related News