{"id":1114,"date":"2020-12-05T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=133065"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:24:12","slug":"armenia-protesters-renew-call-for-pms-resignation-over-karabakh-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/05\/armenia-protesters-renew-call-for-pms-resignation-over-karabakh-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Protesters Renew Call For PM&#8217;s Resignation Over Karabakh Peace Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/42531b25-c0e6-4370-8d46-696f7e11166f_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Thousands of protesters gathered in the Armenian capital on December 5, in a renewed call for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign over a controversial truce deal he signed with Azerbaijan to end fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters on Liberty Square in downtown Yerevan chanted &#8220;Nikol the traitor&#8221; and &#8220;Armenia without Nikol,\u201d and waved the flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinian announced the Moscow-brokered deal on November 10, ending more than six weeks of war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region that left thousands dead.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, Azerbaijan took back control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and all surrounding territories. The deal is seen as a major defeat for Yerevan-backed ethnic Armenian forces who have controlled Nagorno-Karabakh since a 1994 cease-fire ended all-out war.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to the nation on November 12, Pashinian acknowledged that the document he signed was \u201cbad for us,\u201d but said that it was Armenia&#8217;s only option and that it ensured Karabakh&#8217;s survival.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Yerevan in recent weeks demanding Pashinian step down, but the prime minister has not given any indication of resigning.<\/p>\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but the ethnic Armenians who make up most of the population reject Azerbaijani rule.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by RFE\/RL\u2019s Armenian Service and AFP<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/05\/armenia-protesters-renew-call-for-pms-resignation-over-karabakh-peace-deal\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protesters gathered in the Armenian capital on December 5, in a renewed call for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign over a controversial truce deal he\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}