“If I knew that, for example, resigning or stepping down would solve all these challenges, I would do it in the next moment because, unlike you, I am not attached and never have been attached to my chair,” Pashinyan stated,
Under pressure after developments in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today that he would resign immediately if it would solve Armenia’s problems, but stressed that he believed a resignation would make matters worse.
His statement to an opposition lawmaker reflects mounting pressure on Pashinyan since Azerbaijan seized control of the Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh last month. Since then, more than 100,000 people – most of Karabakh’s population – have fled the region and taken refuge in Armenia, a country of just 2.8 million people.
Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the country since 2018, emphasized that Armenia has always faced challenges.
“I’ll say it straight: If I knew that, for example, resigning or stepping down would solve all these challenges, I would do it in the next moment because, unlike you, I am not attached and never have been attached in my chair,” Pashinyan said, according to the state-run Armenpress news agency.
“However, all my analysis shows that this would lead to the exact opposite effect. And this is also the reason why this (including the resignation) is not happening,” he added.
Demonstrators are calling on Pashinyan to step down over developments in Nagorno-Karabakh, a development that most Armenians call a national tragedy that has driven thousands of people from their ancestral lands.
Source :Skai
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