9 forum postsYEREVAN (TASS) – The chief of the Armenian General Staff Onik Gasparyan has been dismissed as the president failed to sign a dismissal request within the established time frame and refrained from filing an appeal with the Constitutional Court, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinayn said today.
The Armenian government’s press service quoted Pashinyan as saying:
Based on the fact that Armenian President Armen Sarkissian did not sign the draft decree on the dismissal of the General Staff chief but refrained from filing an appeal with the Constitutional Court, Chief of the General Staff Onik Gasparyan was relieved of his post on March 10 in accordance with the law.
On Tuesday night, the Armenian presidential office stated that various political forces were wrong when they said that March 9 was the deadline for the president to turn to the Constitutional Court because there was no deadline at all.
A political crisis broke out in Armenia after the head of the General Staff and other top military brass had demanded the resignation of the prime minister and the government on February 25. Pashinyan slammed the demand as a coup attempt and announced his decision to dismiss Gasparyan. He twice requested the president to sack the General Staff chief.
Rami (10 March 2021, 08:46)
I tell you, it smells like a civil war.
F. Hamilton (10 March 2021, 08:49)
I don’t really think so. It’s going to end in an army coup.
Rami (10 March 2021, 08:51)
It’s not that easy. This guy Pashinayn has his supporters.
F. Hamilton (10 March 2021, 08:59)
Maybe, but we still don’t know its extent. The Armenians are a very bourgeois people to take up arms and go into a civil war. They will be content with demonstrations.
Rami (10 March 2021, 09:05)
I can tell you that we here in Lebanon have experienced civil war. Who would have imagined that it could happen to us . We haven’t been able to get out of it for almost 50 years.
Юрий (10 March 2021, 09:13)
Pashinayn is a NATO agent. He will soon be swept away by the army. The Americans wanted to make another colour revolution but it doesn’t work.. BTW this kind of thing never works, look at all these Arab countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Libya... ).
F. Hamilton (10 March 2021, 09:38)
Just because he wants to get independent of Putin doesn’t mean that he is automatically a NATO agent.
Richard from Dubai (10 March 2021, 10:00)
There are many Armenians here in Dubai, mostly from Lebanon but also from iran and Armenia. They don’t look worriedd.
Murat Oghlu (10 March 2021, 16:58)
Armenia is a laughable country. One of the poorest in the CIS.