Reuters
Armenian President Armen Sarkisian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting today, Saturday, on holding early parliamentary elections to get out of the political crisis afflicting the country.
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The Armenian presidency said in a statement that Sarkisyan and Pashinyan discussed “the current situation in the country and ways to settle it and overcome the internal political crisis.”
The statement added, “In this context, the two parties touched on holding early elections as a way to solve the problem.”
The area surrounding the presidential headquarters witnessed sporadic skirmishes between the police and Pashinyan opponents, who gathered there in an attempt to prevent the Prime Minister from attending the meeting with the President.
Earlier, Sarkissian twice rejected Pashinyan’s proposal to appoint General Artak Davtian as the new chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Army, after Pashinyan dismissed his predecessor, as he called on the government and its president to resign.
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