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Videos distributed via social media show protesters vandalizing furniture, doors and windows and entering Prime Minister Nikol Pasjinian’s office.
The government building has been occupied by hundreds of protesters. They called Pasjinian a traitor. The police have not yet intervened. According to some reports, protesters also want to go to the residence of the prime minister.
Parliament must also suffer. That building was also stormed by hundreds of angry demonstrators. Many gathered in the parliament hall, where they sat in the seats of the parliamentarians and “get up!” and “get out!” cried.
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The few policemen present hardly intervened to prevent the disturbances as the protesters walked through the corridors, where doors to the study rooms had been opened and office supplies were thrown.
The situation in the Armenian capital is chaotic. Earlier in the evening, Pasjinian had announced that he had reached an agreement with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin to end hostilities in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“The text is painful for me personally and for our people,” Pasjinian wrote on Facebook about the agreement. After extensive consultation and a thorough analysis of the Nagorno-Karabakh circle, he has decided to put his signature on it, he wrote.
Experts see Pasjinian’s decision as a surrender. Azerbaijani President Aliyev also exulted Monday night of a “capitulation” on the Armenian side.
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