Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will resign in April to hold early elections in June. 

"I will resign in April. I will resign not to resign, but in order for early elections to take place," he told a crowd during a visit to the northwest of the country.

"I will continue to serve as interim prime minister," he added.

Pashinyan had announced earlier in March that there will be a snap election.  Armenian law establishes that early elections can take place once the prime minister steps down and parliament fails to elect a replacement two times.

Pashinyan has been under increasing pressure from the opposition to step down following the war launched by Azerbaijan to occupy Nagorno Karabakh.

The conflict ended with Armenia ceding control over the de facto autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.