Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to AzerbaijanApril 26, 2024 - 13:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government. At least 45 were detained on Thursday as police used force to restore traffic through several national highways as well as streets in the center of Yerevan. Most of the arrests were made in the Armenian capital, according to the Interior Ministry. “There will be no violent resistance to police officers,” said one of those activists, Avetik Chalabyan on Thursday, RFE/RL’s Armenian service reports. “We won’t let them break the law or ourselves break the law. These are peaceful actions, and we will achieve victory with peaceful actions.” Many residents of the affected Tavush villages are strongly opposed to the unilateral handover, saying that they would lose access to their existing agricultural land, have trouble communicating with the rest of the country and be far more vulnerable to Azerbaijani armed attacks. They have dismissed Pashinyan’s claims that failure to accept Baku’s territorial demands would provoke another Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia. The delimitation processes continued on Thursday despite the ongoing protests. In a statement issued late in the afternoon, Pashinian’s press office said that 20 border posts marking the demarcated Armenian-Azerbaijani frontier have been placed in the area. “The work of expert groups of the two countries is continuing,” it said. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said earlier in the day that “about 10-12 kilometers” of the border has already been delineated. Baku has so far refused to give back any land to Armenia during the delimitation process. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. Partner news | Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865. Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |