Armenia’s Corruption Prevention Commission said it did not open proceedings over Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s conduct in the incident recorded in the metro.

According to the commission, proceedings concerning politicians’ conduct are meant to result in a public clarification by the official. Since the prime minister had already issued such a statement, the expected outcome had effectively been achieved, and no case was launched, Pastinfo reported.

“They explained that the outcome of proceedings concerning politicians’ conduct, as such, is that the officeholder makes a public clarification, and given that in this case the prime minister has already made a public statement, that is, the consequence that could have followed from the proceedings has already occurred, no proceedings were initiated,” the report said.

On March 22, Nikol Pashinyan got into an argument in a metro carriage with Armine Mosiyan, who was forcibly displaced from Artsakh, after the woman refused to accept a model of a map offered by Pashinyan and stated her position. Pashinyan began shouting at the woman, who was in the metro with a child, wagging his finger and calling Artsakh residents runaways.

“I will speak to you like this. Do not talk about this map with such contempt. Next time, do not try, with runaways, to say that I gave away Karabakh,’ Pashinyan shouted at the woman in the child’s presence,” he said.