Iran Press/ Asia: "I am resigning from my post as prime minister today to hold the vote," Nikol Pashinyan said in an announcement broadcast on his Facebook page on Sunday, adding that he would continue to fulfill all the duties of the prime minister.
A few days after announcing the snap parliamentary elections last month (March 30, 2021), Pashinyan declared that he would resign in April to defuse a political crisis sparked by last year's war with Azerbaijan.
The Armenian prime minister had been facing calls to resign since last November when he agreed to a Russian-brokered ceasefire that halted six weeks of fighting between ethnic Armenian and Azeri Republic forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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