Armenia's armed forces demand resignation of PM and government: Ifax

FILE PHOTO: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's armed forces called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government in a statement on Thursday, the Interfax news agency reported.

Pashinyan has faced protests and calls to resign after what his critics say was the disastrous handling of a bloody six-week conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year.

(Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Alison Williams)