YEREVAN, June 9. /TASS/. Leader of Armenia’s Tavush for the Homeland opposition movement Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan has called on lawmakers to gather for an extraordinary session on June 11 to consider the issue of the government’s dissolution.
"At out request, opposition lawmakers of the National Assembly will initiate an extraordinary parliament session at 6:30 p.m. local time (2:30 p.m. GMT - TASS) on June 11. The agenda will be the resignation of the government and forming a new on," he said during a protest rally in Yerevan that was aired by local television channels.
He also said that on June 20 the National Assembly’s Council must call an extraordinary session and the pro-government lawmakers must accept the will of the people.
"We will not let them make another anti-state mistake," he stressed.
Grass-roots protests against the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan in the Tavush region and ceding four villages, which used to be part of Azerbaijan in the Soviet era but have been controlled by Armenia since the 1990s, to Baku are coordinated by the Tavush for the Homeland movement led by Bagrat Galstanyan, Archbishop of the Diocese of Tavush at the Armenian Apostolic Church. The movement demands Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation blaming him for ceding territories to Azerbaijan.