{"id":24669,"date":"2020-11-12T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/nikol-is-a-traitor-armenia-pm-refuses-to-yield-to-opposition-after-nagorno-karabakh-deal"},"modified":"2020-11-12T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:18:21","slug":"nikol-is-a-traitor-armenia-pm-refuses-to-yield-to-opposition-after-nagorno-karabakh-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24669","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nikol is a traitor&#8217;: Armenia PM refuses to yield to opposition after Nagorno-Karabakh deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it will not give in to protesters\u2019 call to resign after ceasefire agreement seen as capitulation<\/p>\n<p>The office of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/armenia\">Armenia<\/a>\u2019s prime minister has said that it will not allow the opposition to seize power by force, as heated protests have continued for a second day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/10\/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-pm-signs-deal-to-end-war-with-azerbaijan-and-russia\">after the signing of a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh seen as a capitulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand protesters defied martial law on Wednesday to gather in downtown Yerevan, Armenia\u2019s capital, and call for the prime minister Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s resignation. On Monday evening, he signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire that ceded territory to Azerbaijan that had been won in a bloody war in the 1990s. \u201cNikol is a traitor,\u201d the protesters chanted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/nikol-is-a-traitor-armenia-pm-refuses-to-yield-to-opposition-after-nagorno-karabakh-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it will not give in to protesters\u2019 call to resign after ceasefire agreement seen as capitulationThe office of Armenia\u2019s prime minister has said that it will not allow the opposition to seize power by force, as heated protests have conti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,419,1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-russia","category-turkey"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}