YEREVAN. Dec 11 (Interfax) - The opposition rally demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan developed into a march of thousands along the central streets of Yerevan on Friday, an Interfax correspondent said in a report.
The march is led by Artur Vanetsyan, the chairman of the opposition party Homeland.
The protesters are chanting, "Armenia without Nikol," "Nikol is a traitor," and "Down with Nikol."
Before the march began, the police detained over 100 participants in the rally demanding Pashinyan's resignation near the Opera Theater in downtown Yerevan.
Protests in Yerevan broke out in the early hours of November 10 after the Armenian prime minister and the Russian and Azerbaijani leaders adopted a statement on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the deployment of peacekeepers in Karabakh, and the transfer of a number of areas in the region to Azerbaijan.
Armenia's opposition parties urged Pashinyan to resign. So did Armenia's three former presidents, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan, and the country's incumbent President Armen Sarkissian.
Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians and Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia have also called on Pashinyan to resign as Armenia's prime minister.
Doctors, scientists, and culture personalities of Armenia have demanded Pashinyan's resignation.