Armenian authorities will do their utmost to reach a peaceful outcome to the situation unfolding at the Yerevan police station, the Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan declared during the opening of the Cabinet meeting.
"This situation causes extreme concern. The Armenian authorities are doing the best they can to achieve a peaceful outcome to the situation," TASS cited him as saying.
"What happened in the police precinct is inadmissible and should be condemned, since real changes cannot be achieved through violence," Abrahamyan said, describing the developments as "a danger and a dead end."
"On July 17, a gang of armed attackers stormed a police station in Yerevan taking hostages and killing a police colonel," he said. The prime minister also expressed condolences on behalf of the government to the family, friends and colleagues of Colonel Artur Vanoyan killed during the attack.
