Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan has resigned in the run-up to the election to bring about a speedy election

Nikol Pashinyan is calling early elections because of criticism of last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who took power in protests for democracy in 2018, has launched early elections to try to overcome criticism of last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

His resignation, which was expected on Sunday, came after US President Joe Biden said in 1915 that there had been massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. the genocide formed, a welcome move by Armenians around the world but condemned by Turkey for denying that the killings have been systematically organized and genocide.

Pashinyan told Biden that the symbolic decision was a security issue for Armenia six weeks later conflict around Nagorno-KarabakhHe supported Azerbaijan, a neighbor of Armenia in Turkey. There is an enclave with an ethnic Armenian population.

Pashinyan has been under pressure to resign since he agreed to a ceasefire after ethnic Armenians lost territory to Azeri forces in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.

He had already set an appointment for June 20 for the early elections.

He announced his resignation on Sunday on a Facebook page telling them that he was returning the power he had received from the citizens so that the future of the government could be decided through free and fair elections.

He said he was forced to agree to a peace deal with Russia to avoid further human and territorial losses.

Armenian army he demanded his resignation and then tried to oust the main cabinet, a decision blocked by the president of the former Soviet Republic.

Pashinyan briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the election and the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where about 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were deployed by telephone on Saturday, the Kremlin said.

The Armenian prime minister has previously complained that some problems in the region, including the return of prisoners of war, have not yet been resolved.

According to Sputnik media, Pashinyan’s My Step government alliance led a poll conducted by the Gallup International Association late last month.

Probably the main rival is Robert Kocharyan, a group led by the Armenian president since 1998.