Armenian Premier Warns of Coup as Army Tells Him to Quit
- Pashinyan appeals to supporters after military statement
- Armenia has been roiled by crisis since Karabakh war defeat
Nikol Pashinyan
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Armenia’s military demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, plunging the Caucasus nation into fresh political crisis following its defeat to Azerbaijan in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Pashinyan and the government “are no longer able to make proper decisions in this fateful moment of crisis for the Armenian people,” the General Staff of the Army said Thursday in a statement signed by 40 top officers. The military said its demand was triggered by Pashinyan’s dismissal of the first deputy head of the army a day earlier.