Armenian opposition leader announces start of ‘velvet’ revolution
17.04.2018,
12:47
The leader of the oppositional Yelk parliamentary bloc Nikol Pashinyan has announced today that start of the ‘velvet’ revolution in Armenia.
YEREVAN, April 17. /ARKA/. The leader of the oppositional Yelk parliamentary bloc Nikol Pashinyan has announced today that start of the ‘velvet’ revolution in Armenia. "I officially declare that a revolutionary situation has arisen in Armenia, and today I am announcing the beginning of a peaceful velvet revolution," Pashinyan said to his supporters.
Protests in Armenia have continued for the fifth straight day shutting Yerevan’s downtown. As many as 46 people, including six police officers, were reported injured during a clash on April 16. The protests are aimed at preventing former president Serzh Sargsyan from assuming the position of prime minister. He resigned as president a week earlier. Armenia’s new constitution approved in a 2015 referendum makes the prime minister the country’s most powerful figure.
Pashinyan said that in many cities of the country, including the second and third largest towns of Gyumri and Vanadzor and in Ijevan, mass protests and strikes are taking placer, involving university students.
According to him, it is necessary to continue to show flexibility, continue the network struggle, rule out any use of force against law enforcement forces, but paralyze the work of all state structures throughout the country.
"We will now march to the government buildings to block their work, we will hold sit-ins inside or outside the buildings," he said..
In the meantime, a special meeting is being held in the National Assembly to elect former president Sezrh Sargsyan as new prime minister.-0-
Protests in Armenia have continued for the fifth straight day shutting Yerevan’s downtown. As many as 46 people, including six police officers, were reported injured during a clash on April 16. The protests are aimed at preventing former president Serzh Sargsyan from assuming the position of prime minister. He resigned as president a week earlier. Armenia’s new constitution approved in a 2015 referendum makes the prime minister the country’s most powerful figure.
Pashinyan said that in many cities of the country, including the second and third largest towns of Gyumri and Vanadzor and in Ijevan, mass protests and strikes are taking placer, involving university students.
According to him, it is necessary to continue to show flexibility, continue the network struggle, rule out any use of force against law enforcement forces, but paralyze the work of all state structures throughout the country.
"We will now march to the government buildings to block their work, we will hold sit-ins inside or outside the buildings," he said..
In the meantime, a special meeting is being held in the National Assembly to elect former president Sezrh Sargsyan as new prime minister.-0-
