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Armenian Police report that rumors about large-scale operations, revolutionary situations, tensions or instability in different regions and cities of Armenia are disinformation and have nothing to do with reality. In a statement released on Tuesday, the law enforcement body urges the rally participants and media representatives to refrain from provocative behavior.

The statement reminds that since early morning of April 17, Nikol Pashinyan has been urging the participants of the rally to surround and block government buildings, state bodies and other departments and thereby impede their normal activities. It further details that demonstrators through direct and indirect orders of Pashinyan, in small groups began blocking the entrance to the buildings of state bodies, including some ministries, executive authorities and law enforcement agencies, as well as courts.

"The aforementioned actions go beyond the scope of the right to organize and participate in peaceful assemblies, guaranteed by the Constitution and law. Moreover, some of these manifestations coincide with the signs of actions pursued by the criminal law," the statement reads, adding in the current situation, there are legitimate grounds foreseen by the law and the Constitution, not only to disperse the meeting, but also to prevent and suppress what it called "continuing criminal activities."