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A protest was held outside the Armenian government building housing the Foreign Ministry and several other ministries in downtown Yerevan on Tuesday as part of the opposition campaign to topple Nikol Pashinyan.

Opposition leader and deputy parliament speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan urged protesters to refrain from clashes with the police.

Opposition lawmakers wanted to enter the government building and to talk to the ministers about the issues raised by the opposition, including Artsakh’s status and Armenian-Turkish relations.

They negotiated with police officers guarding the building for an hour to be let in. Eventually, no meeting took place between the minsters and the MPs.

“The ministers avoid meetings with parliament deputies. They are simply afraid and are hiding behind police cordons,” Saghatelyan said before they marched through the city.