Third President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia is participating in Saturday evening’s traditional torchlight procession in Yerevan—and on the eve of the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide—as a citizen. He told reporters about this before the start of this procession.

"Have I renounced being a citizen? Politics is one thing, being a citizen is another. Any politician, first of all, must be a citizen," he said.

To the remark that PM Nikol Pashinyan says that during the rule of the previous Armenian authorities there was a demand from the international community to lower the “bar” on the matter of the status of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and when asked whether such a demand was made before him during his presidency, Sargsyan responded: "No. What does that mean? I do not think it is too appropriate to answer such questions on foot. But, nonetheless, since [19]88, Azerbaijan also had not wanted to talk about any ‘bar’ at all. Is it such a fact that should have forced us to give up our goals? Of course not. All those documents are there. You demand from Nikol Pashinyan to publicize what he was proposed in 2019, and in general, what the 'bar' is for him."