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They were unable to hold an extraordinary meeting of the Armenian parliament due to the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Only the vice president of Parliament, Lena Nazaryan, came to him.
An extraordinary session of the Armenian parliament, called to consider the issue of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation, did not take place due to lack of a quorum, Interfax writes on November 11, citing a statement by opposition MP Naira Zohrabyan.
According to her, only the vice-president of Parliament, Lena Nazaryan, attended the meeting. No other deputies from the ruling faction attended.
The organizers of the rally demanding the resignation of Pashinyan urged the protesters to go home and wait for the events to unfold.
The Prosperous Armenia and Bright Armenia parties called an extraordinary session of the Armenian parliament, the Armenian news agency reported.
The resignation of Pashinyan in Armenia is called for in connection with the signing of agreements on the settlement of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. The head of the leadership of Armenia’s Dashnaktsutyun opposition party, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, said on November 11 that Pashinyan should resign at the end of the day.
On the night of November 10, 2020, Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a declaration to end the war in Karabakh. Under the agreements, 1,960 Russian peacekeepers, 90 armored personnel carriers, 380 military and special vehicles will be deployed along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Prime Minister of Armenia said that this decision was extremely difficult for him, but that there was no alternative. Aliyev stressed that Pashinyan was “forced” to sign a document “extremely beneficial” for Baku.
Pashinyan was appointed head of the Armenian government in January 2019.
On September 27, 2020, the biggest conflict in recent years broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry accused Armenia of a “large-scale provocation”, shelling of the Azerbaijani army positions and announced the beginning of a “swift counteroffensive”. The Armenian authorities, in turn, stated that the Azerbaijani army had launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. During the conflict, the parties used tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft. Soldiers and civilians were reported killed and injured.
Martial law was introduced both in Armenia and in certain regions of Azerbaijan. Both countries involved in the conflict announced mobilization.
Agreements on an armistice were reached in Nagorno-Karabakh on several occasions, but each time they were violated. On October 9, during the negotiations in Moscow, the representatives of Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting at 12:00 on October 10. However, after the start of the truce, both parties accused each other of breaking it.
On 9 November, the representative of the Nagorno-Karabakh “authorities” Vahram Poghosyan said that the army of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic no longer controls the key city of Shusha and that Azerbaijani troops are on the outskirts of Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh.
On the morning of November 10, the Russian Defense Ministry had sent 10 Il-76 military transport aircraft with peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, November 11, a plane commanded by the Russian peacekeepers landed at the Erebuni airport.
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