YEREVAN. – The citizens who are demanding the resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continue to stay on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue. They have gathered around the stoves near the tents that have been pitched there and are singing patriotic songs.

"We call on everyone to join our struggle early in the morning in order to drive this government away with joint forces and together build the homeland of our dream," said Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a representative of the Armenia Supreme Body of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation-ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party and coordinator of the Homeland Salvation Movement—which demands the resignation of PM Pashinyan, on Facebook.

On Thursday morning, the General Staff of the Armed Forces issued a statement in which the high-ranking military officials demanded the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan and his government. Pashinyan, however, considered the move as an "attempt at a military coup" and called on his supporters to gather at Republic Square in downtown Yerevan.

After their rally at Liberty Square in downtown Yerevan, the opposition demanding Pashinyan’s resignation marched to Marshal Baghramyan Avenue, continued their respective protest in front of the National Assembly, after which they announced that they would pitch tents and spend the night on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue.