(Reuters) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a statement on Monday that he had asked a number of high-ranking officials to step down from their positions.

“The reasons for making such a request are not personal, but systematic, which I have spoken about publicly,” Pashinyan wrote on Facebook.

Russia’s TASS state news agency reported separately on Monday that Interior Minister Vahe Ghazaryan had resigned. It cited his spokesperson.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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