Armenian premier on  Karen Karapetyan`s offer on behalf of Serzh  Sargsyan in April 2018 

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recounted a conversation he had with then-Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan in the National Security Service (NSS) detention center in April 2018. He denied reports that he was offered the position of Deputy Prime Minister at the time.

"Karen Karapetyan came and spoke on behalf of Serzh Sargsyan. He  tried to imply that I was being released, and that the revolutionary  process was no longer continuing. I said that was out of the  question," Pashinyan said in a conversation with journalists in  parliament on November 12.

"He suggested, indirectly (if he denies it, I will understand,  because the proposal was indirect), that I be released, after which  the revolutionary agenda should be abandoned.  And Karapetyan, as  someone accepted by all sides, should somehow lead the country." "I  said, 'Serzh Sargsyan must go.' After which Karen Karapetyan left,  then returned and said that Serzh Sargsyan was ready to resign, but  he was proposing to do so after the Francophonie summit. I said that  was unacceptable," Pashinyan continued.

After this, Nikol Pashinyan also rejected the offer to resign in  June, demanding that he resign that same day or, at the latest, the  next day. Karapetyan eventually announced that Sargsyan had agreed.

Regarding the offer of the deputy prime minister position, which  former President Serzh Sargsyan mentioned in a recent interview,  Pashinyan maintains that the conversation did not mention the deputy  prime minister position or any other position offered to him by  Karapetyan on behalf of Serzh Sargsyan.