Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) MP Naira Zohrabyan today called Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan a “traitor who is handing over parts of our homeland to his educated Turk friend Aliyev”.

Zohrabyan made the remark at a special sitting of the Armenian parliament to discuss a government sponsored bill to review the 1,000 AMD compensation of stamp fees for soldiers wounded during wartime.

Zohrabyan referred to a recent interview in which Pashinyan said that the land handovers were the result of verbal agreements.

"Dear compatriots, we still do not know what verbal agreements the traitor occupying the post of prime minister, who is partially handing over our homeland to his educated Turkish friend Ali, have, for example, in some parts of Gegharkunik and Meghri," said Zohrabyan.

She said that the parliament’s sole issue for discussion is that of Nikol Pashinyan's impeachment.

BHK MP Mikael Melkumyan accused the government of doing nothing to assist the 30,000 citizens of Artsakh now living in basements and huts. He said that forty-seven days have passed since the end of the war and the government is still unable to make measurable assessments of what was lost.

"Besides the fact that we have thousands of victims and missing people, they are trying to erase Armenia from the world political map," Melkumyan said, adding that in a few months the government will not be able to pay pensions and salaries.

According to BHK faction secretary Arman Abovyan, the government is to see the reality that now exists.

Ruling My Step (Im Kayl) MP Hayk Sargsyan took the floor and called on police and law enforcement agencies to restore public order in Yerevan.

"This morning, a number of provocateurs closed the entrances to the National Assembly and staged provocations when deputies tried to enter. I appeal to the head of the Yerevan City Police Department to restore public order. Many citizens recently wrote to me saying that if the police did take action, they would have to defend the government they elected," Sargsyan said.

BHK MP Iveta Tonoyan responded that because of Pashinyan’s two-and-a-half-year rule, the territory of Republic of Armenia has decreased from 42,000 square meters to 29,000 and that the line of contact with Azerbaijan increased by 500 kilometers.

"As a result of the war unleashed by your government, there are some 5,000 victims, 10,000 wounded and 40,000 homeless compatriots," Tonoyan said.

My Step MP Armen Khachatryan took the floor and asked how many MPs had gone to the border communities of Syunik to talk to residents and the border guards.

Tonoyan rose from her seat and said that they had gone and had never received any parliamentary compensation for the trips.

"I applied to the National Assembly to provide me with an SUV, because it was not possible to go to those territories in my own car. I will give more details outside the hall. You will regret that question, I promise you,” Tonoyan said.

She suggested setting up a working monitoring group to go to Syunik together with the state agencies to monitor border demarcation activities.

"We talk so much, but 99% of us do not know where Shurnukh is, where Vorotan is, where the Russians are positioned. People are so fearful that residents of Yerevan’s Norther Boulevard are afraid to go outside at night,” Tonoyan said.

Bright Armenia (Lusavor Hayastan) faction head Edmon Marukyan, responding to Armen Khachatryan's question, said that a faction delegation had visited Syunik a month ago.

"When they blocked the road you, as a ruling deputy, should have gone and talked to the people to open it so that the prime minister could have gone to Syunik. We can go to Syunik whenever we want. You can't go. The prime minister can't go to Syunik," Marukyan said.