Artur Vanetsyan—the leader of the opposition "With Honor" Faction of the National Assembly and chairman of the opposition Homeland party of Armenia—, who announced the start of indefinite protests at Freedom Square in downtown Yerevan on April 17, visited Nver Kirakosyan and Artur Avagyan—two participants of the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020—, who are on hunger strike at the same square.

"I approach the hunger striker boys several times a day, I ask [them] to stop the hunger strike, but they say that they have not yet achieved the goal they have set before them," Vanetsyan told reporters.

He noted that the people approaching him mainly propose to get rid of the incumbent Armenian authorities as soon as possible, to form new authorities that are guided by normal national and state interests, and which will serve exclusively the interests of Armenia and Artsakh.

"We have not come here now with a demand, for example, for a change of power. I am not here for that purpose. My main goal is for the love of Artsakh and for the love of Armenia, for the love of a powerful Artsakh and a powerful Armenia. (…). Here we are fighting ‘for the love of,’ for the love of Armenia and for the love of Artsakh," said the opposition politician.

According to him, the words of the current Armenian authorities cannot instill confidence because these authorities have proved many times that they change their decisions under the influence of the moment, and they do not know the value of their words.