Yerevan: Armenian opposition supporters briefly clashed with police on Monday during the latest weeks of protests over the prime minister Nicole PashinyanDealing with a territorial dispute with arch enemy Azerbaijan.
Opposition parties have been holding rallies since mid-April to demand Pashinyan’s resignation, accusing him of planning to make unacceptable concessions to Baku in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Nagorno-Karabakh is located in Muslim-majority Azerbaijan but is largely populated Christian ArmenianThe two former Soviet Caucasus is the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the neighbours.
On Monday, hundreds of protesters marched through the center of the Armenian capital, YerevanBefore blocking the entrance to a building housing government offices.
An AFP reporter saw clashes broke out after protesters tried to break a police cordon and enter the building.
During the protest, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Leader of the Opposition Ishkhan Saghtelian Urged government employees to distance themselves from the pashinians, so that they “do not share their responsibility for ruining the country”.
Pashinyan calls on Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels last week for a new round of EU-mediated talks on a future peace treaty.
They have agreed to “step forward the discussion” on normalizing relations and overcoming differences on border delimitation, as well as on unblocking transport communications.
Azeri Foreign Minister Jehun Bayramov told reporters last Friday that there was a “positive atmosphere” in relations with Yerevan.
Armenia And Azerbaijan fought two wars – in 1990 and 2020 – over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Six weeks of fighting in autumn 2020 killed more than 6,500 people and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Under the agreement, Armenia ceded territory it had controlled for decades, and Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the ceasefire.
The agreement was seen as a national humiliation in Armenia and sparked weeks of anti-government protests, leading Pashinyan to call snap parliamentary elections, which his party, Civil Contract, had won the previous September.
Opposition parties have accused Pashinyan of planning to hand over parts of Baku. karabakhi which are still under Armenian control.
Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh split from Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The ensuing conflict took the lives of about 30,000 people.
Opposition parties have been holding rallies since mid-April to demand Pashinyan’s resignation, accusing him of planning to make unacceptable concessions to Baku in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Nagorno-Karabakh is located in Muslim-majority Azerbaijan but is largely populated Christian ArmenianThe two former Soviet Caucasus is the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the neighbours.
On Monday, hundreds of protesters marched through the center of the Armenian capital, YerevanBefore blocking the entrance to a building housing government offices.
An AFP reporter saw clashes broke out after protesters tried to break a police cordon and enter the building.
During the protest, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Leader of the Opposition Ishkhan Saghtelian Urged government employees to distance themselves from the pashinians, so that they “do not share their responsibility for ruining the country”.
Pashinyan calls on Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels last week for a new round of EU-mediated talks on a future peace treaty.
They have agreed to “step forward the discussion” on normalizing relations and overcoming differences on border delimitation, as well as on unblocking transport communications.
Azeri Foreign Minister Jehun Bayramov told reporters last Friday that there was a “positive atmosphere” in relations with Yerevan.
Armenia And Azerbaijan fought two wars – in 1990 and 2020 – over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Six weeks of fighting in autumn 2020 killed more than 6,500 people and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Under the agreement, Armenia ceded territory it had controlled for decades, and Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the ceasefire.
The agreement was seen as a national humiliation in Armenia and sparked weeks of anti-government protests, leading Pashinyan to call snap parliamentary elections, which his party, Civil Contract, had won the previous September.
Opposition parties have accused Pashinyan of planning to hand over parts of Baku. karabakhi which are still under Armenian control.
Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh split from Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The ensuing conflict took the lives of about 30,000 people.