'Nikol is a traitor': Armenia PM refuses to yield to opposition after Nagorno-Karabakh deal

Government says it will not give in to protesters call to resign after ceasefire agreement seen as capitulation

The office of Armenia's prime minister has said that it will not allow the opposition to seize power by force, as heated protests have continued for a second day after the signing of a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh seen as a capitulation.

Several thousand protesters defied martial law on Wednesday to gather in downtown Yerevan, Armenia's capital, and call for the prime minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation. On Monday evening, he signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire that ceded territory to Azerbaijan that had been won in a bloody war in the 1990s. Nikol is a traitor," the protesters chanted.