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(25 Feb 2021) Armenia's Prime Minister accused top military officers on Thursday of attempting a coup after they demanded he step down, adding fuel to months of protests calling for his resignation following the country's defeat in a conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has faced opposition calls to step down ever since he signed a Nov. 10 peace deal that saw Azerbaijan reclaim control over large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas that had been held by Armenian forces for more than a quarter-century.
The opposition protests gathered pace this week, and the feud with his top military commanders has weakened Pashinyan's position, raising concerns about stability in the strategic South Caucasus region, where shipments of Azerbaijan's Caspian crude oil pass through on their way to Western markets.
Former Prime Minister Vazgen Manukhan said there had been a "shamefully lost war and the Prime Minister who was responsible for that has not left his post and since that day the public has been demanding his resignation."
He accused Pashinyan of
"clinging to his chair."
The immediate trigger for the latest tensions was Pashinyan's decision earlier this week to oust the first deputy chief of the military's General Staff that includes the armed forces' top officers.
In response, the General Staff called for Pashinyan's resignation, but he doubled down and ordered that the chief of the General Staff be dismissed.

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