Incident takes place while Armenia PM campaigns in Kapan

News.am, Armenia

17:57, 10.03.2020

An incident took place during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s campaign in Kapan today. While Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, head of the YES campaign for the constitutional referendum Suren Papikyan was giving a speech, one of the citizens started screaming to have the right to ask the Prime Minister a question.

Nikol Pashinyan came down from the stage, approached the citizen and tried to calm the latter down. “I’m not here to disturb or start a fight. Somebody took the microphone from me. I’m a citizen deprived of freedom of speech,” the citizen said.

Seeing that the man isn’t calming down and can’t stop screaming, Nikol Pashinyan said he was sorry and had to go and give a speech and left.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS