Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan announced his resignation as prime minister in a televised broadcast, opening the door for snap parliamentary elections on 20 June.

The European Union Ambassador in Azerbaijan, Kestudis Jankauskas was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Baku on Friday evening. The Azerbaijani government protested against the holding of a meeting the previous day between the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, and the de facto foreign minister of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, David Babayan