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Thousands of protesters rallied in Armenia's capital on Tuesday demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign over a controversial peace deal with Azerbaijan as the opposition launched a nationwide strike.
Some 25,000 protesters flooded the centre of Yerevan, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene, chanting "Nikol the traitor" and "Armenia without Nikol".
Demonstrators surrounded the government building and implored riot police protecting it to join the people.
Pashinyan sparked fury when he signed the Moscow-brokered accord last month, ending six weeks of war over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh that left more than 6,000 dead.
Armenia agreed to cede three districts to Baku under the deal in addition to four others that Azerbaijani forces won back during the fighting and had been controlled by Armenian separatists since a 1990s war.