Armenian PM, ex-persident's supporters clash in parliament VIDEO

A scuffle has erupted in Armenia's National Assembly between MPs from the ruling faction and the opposition.

After a speech by a member of former Armenian President Kocharyan's Armenia faction, former Sisian mayor Artur Sargsyan, a verbal altercation broke out between him and a representative of the Civil Contract Hovik Aghazaryan, which turned into a scuffle, Caliber.Az reports, citing Armenian media outlets.

Other representatives of the ruling faction joined in as well.

To stop the incident, Speaker Alen Simonyan ordered the security service to remove the opposition MP from the hall. The opposition MP was removed, but Sargsyan called the security guards' actions unlawful, promising that they would "retaliate".

Details about the reasons for the scuffle are not reported.

Earlier, member of ultranationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun Ishkhan Saghatelyan declared that the opposition will take to the streets to protest Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks about recognising Azerbaijan's territorial integrity,  including Karabakh and some enclaves.

Saghatelyan recalled that a trilateral meeting will be held in Moscow on May 25 with the participation of Pashinyan, as well as the Azerbaijani and Russian presidents, and then negotiations will take place in Chisinau and Brussels.

"And in October he will try to sign the surrender. To prevent this, we have five to six months. We are planning protests and actions of disobedience," Saghatelyan said.

At a press conference on May 22, Pashinyan stated that the territory of Azerbaijan within 86,600 square kilometres, which Armenia recognises, includes both Karabakh and the enclaves of Azerbaijan.

After a trilateral meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, EU Council President Charles Michel and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels on May 14, Michel stressed that both sides recognised each other’s territorial integrity on the basis of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration.