Armenia needs peace, PM says after Azerbaijan retakes Karabakh

Armenia needs to be "free of conflict" for the sake of its independence, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told his compatriots on Thursday, after their ethnic kin in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region surrendered this week to Azerbaijan. The fall of Karabakh, a region that the ethnic Armenian separatists had controlled for three decades with Yerevan's support, has stoked calls in Armenia for Pashinyan's resignation. "Today we are living in difficult times, suffering untold physical and psychological suffering," Pashinyan said in a televised address marking Armenia's national independence day in which he made no direct reference to Nagorno-Karabakh.