Police officers, protesters hospitalized during anti-Pashinyan demonstrations

PanARMENIAN.Net - The situation is tense near one of the government buildings in Yerevan as members of the opposition movement demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are trying to storm the building and meet with cabinet ministers.

Lawmaker from Armenia bloc Ishkhan Saghatelyan declared on Monday, May 30 that they are planning to learn whether the ministers agree with the statement published by the opposition on the Armenian-Azerbaijani and the Armenian-Turkish relations.

The police, however, prevented the opposition from entering the building, after which a clash broke out between law enforcement officers and civilians, some of whom ended up feeling weak during the scuffle and were taken to hospital as a result.

2 police offers and two demonstrators have been hospitalized.

In recent months, protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have taken to the streets to block major roads in the capital Yerevan and call on the population to commit acts of civil disobedience. Pashinian has come under fire after he and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agreed to start drafting a bilateral peace treaty to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and set up a joint commission on demarcating the borders.