Dozens of individuals had been injured in incidents that broke out immediately throughout an anti-government demonstration exterior Armenia's parliament. Police used stun grenades to disperse crowds besieging the parliament constructing, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in keeping with an AFP photographer in Yerevan.
The Inside Ministry introduced the arrest of 60 protesters who refused to adjust to police orders.
The anti-government demonstration, which was organized as a protest towards the granting of territory to Azerbaijan, changed into an episode when some demonstrators tried to interrupt by way of the police cordon.
The protest towards Prime Minister Pashinyan was led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan who, addressing the protesters earlier, denounced the “unlawful, unilateral and humiliating” land concessions from Armenia.
The Armenian prime minister is defending the latest concession of 4 border communities to Azerbaijan, calling it essential to keep away from a brand new battle with Baku.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have clashed twice over management of Nagorno-Karabakh, one within the Nineteen Nineties that the Armenians received and one in 2020 that ended with the Azeri victory. Baku launched a shock offensive in 2023, recapturing the enclave and ousting the Armenian separatists who had dominated it for almost three many years.
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