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image captionNikol Pashinyan (centre) gave the thumbs up as he walked in Yerevan surrounded by hundreds of supporters and police<\/p><\/div>\n
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has warned of an attempted military coup, after the country’s armed forces said he and his cabinet must resign.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The army “must obey the people and elected authorities,” he told thousands of supporters in the capital Yerevan. His opponents held a rival rally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The military’s top brass was angered by the PM’s sacking of a commander.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mr Pashinyan has faced protests after losing last year’s bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over a disputed region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but which had been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a 1994 truce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n During the six-weeks of fighting late in 2020, Azerbaijan not only recaptured areas around the enclave but also took the key town of Shusha inside it.<\/p>\n Under the Russian-brokered deal that emerged shortly afterwards, Azerbaijan keeps the areas it has captured. Hundreds of Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the disputed area.<\/p>\n