Armenian PM expected to resign on Thursday: source

By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia's Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan is expected to resign on Thursday, a source close to the government said, after an economic slowdown this year and outbreaks of violence prompted the president to call for a new government. The source told Reuters the ruling Republican Party would discuss Abrahamyan's possible resignation on Thursday. A spokesman for President Serzh Sarksyan, who proposed in August a "government of national accord", declined to com