Armenia’s president said that the government should resign, new elections should be held within a year at the latest and an interim government of national accord should be formed, preferably a technocratic one.

Armen Sarkissian also criticized the Armenian government during his meeting with representatives of the Armenian community in Russia.

He described Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s signing of a cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and the withdrawal of Armenians from Karabakh as a “great tragedy”: “There is a solution in any country where such a great tragedy has occurred. The government that led to this has to go. The situation in Armenia was very different from two years ago when elections were held and proposed the establishment of a provisional national unity government and early elections”.