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Armenia’s Foreign Ministry announced that Minister Zohrab Mnatsakyanian resigned from his post on Monday, while Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan acknowledged that he was responsible for what the situation in the country had achieved after the war against Azerbaijan.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said, in a tweet on Twitter, that Minister Mnatsakyanian resigned from his post on Monday and has been in office since May 2018.
This coincided with news of a decision issued by Pashinyan to remove the foreign minister, as Pashinyan said hours earlier that “agreements were proposed to hand over some regions of Karabakh to Azerbaijan, including Shushi, before the start of the war.” and as a result Mnatsakanian will be isolated.
However, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry denied Pashinyan’s remarks, saying that the issue of Shushi’s extradition to Azerbaijan was not addressed at any stage of the Karabakh agreement.
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In a related context, Pashinyan said, in his first television interview since the ceasefire agreement with Azerbaijan was announced last Monday, that the war was a product of his policy towards Karabakh.
He added: “I know that I must come before the people and accept accountability, but before that, they must know the circumstances surrounding this period.”
Pashinyan called for a dialogue that involves everyone, starting with the army and the opposition, and ending with the government.
And the Armenian prime minister considered that the negotiations on Karabakh reached a dead end in May 2018, as the reality imposed on his country was a free delivery.
He continued: “It was not possible to change that. My policy was based on solving this matter, but the international community was instructing us to hand over Karabakh to Azerbaijan without conditions.”
Pashinyan today called on Facebook to stop the demonstrations condemning the agreement, saying: “I have clearly said today that violence or incitement to violence (especially gun violence) cannot in any way be a means of action for the government.” .
Since the agreement was signed under the auspices of Russia, thousands of protesters have continued to gather in the streets of the Armenian capital Yerevan, calling Pashinyan a “traitor” and demanding his resignation, and storming several government buildings.
On Saturday, authorities announced that they had foiled a plot to assassinate the prime minister and arrested opposition leader Artur Vanitzian, who is also the former head of the security services, and was released the following day, along with 12 leaders of the the opposition.
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