YEREVAN. – The Mothers in Black, the mothers of soldiers who died in times of peace in the army in different years, were protesting in front of the Government of Armenia today. Vice Speaker of the National Assembly, Alen Simonyan, met with them.

The Mothers in Black asked Simonyan to mediate so that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan receive and listen to them, and the Vice President of the National Assembly promised to mediate in this regard.

Human rights activists and ordinary citizens also gathered in front of the government to demand a meeting, immediately after the cabinet meeting, with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and heads of the power structures to ask them questions and get answers from them about the deaths and suicides in the army.