YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan walked from the main building of the government to the third building of the government under the chants, “Nikol, the traitor,” by protesters.
Hundreds of police had cordoned off the area to enable Pashinyan to reach the third building of the government.
In addition, police forces were concentrated at the nearby square by buses from early in the morning.
As reported earlier, at the end of Monday’s protests of the Homeland Salvation Movement—which demands the resignation of PM Nikol Pashinyan, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a representative of the Armenia Supreme Body of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation-ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party and coordinator of the aforesaid movement, had called to the people to be near the third building of the government at 11:30am Tuesday, as Pashinyan was to come to that building.
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