02:46Protesters continued to rally in front of the government building on Republic Square in Yerevan, to call for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan amid ongoing territory negotiations with Azerbaijan.
Footage taken on Thursday shows demonstrators with smoke bombs and flags clashing with law enforcement officers who cordoned off the entrance. One man can be seen being dragged away. The head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Galstanyan was also seen at the rally.
According to the opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement, nine people were detained.
Yerevan law enforcement claimed protesters were violent and called on them "not to break the law and obey the lawful demands of the police".
Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
At a rally in Yerevan earlier this month, Galstanyan stated that opposition factions were ready to initiate impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan due to the territorial concessions.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Flares and fury - Police drag away demonstrator as huge protests calling for PM to quit continue in Yerevan
Protesters continued to rally in front of the government building on Republic Square in Yerevan, to call for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan amid ongoing territory negotiations with Azerbaijan.
Footage taken on Thursday shows demonstrators with smoke bombs and flags clashing with law enforcement officers who cordoned off the entrance. One man can be seen being dragged away. The head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Galstanyan was also seen at the rally.
According to the opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement, nine people were detained.
Yerevan law enforcement claimed protesters were violent and called on them "not to break the law and obey the lawful demands of the police".
Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
At a rally in Yerevan earlier this month, Galstanyan stated that opposition factions were ready to initiate impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan due to the territorial concessions.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Protesters continued to rally in front of the government building on Republic Square in Yerevan, to call for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan amid ongoing territory negotiations with Azerbaijan.
Footage taken on Thursday shows demonstrators with smoke bombs and flags clashing with law enforcement officers who cordoned off the entrance. One man can be seen being dragged away. The head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Galstanyan was also seen at the rally.
According to the opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement, nine people were detained.
Yerevan law enforcement claimed protesters were violent and called on them "not to break the law and obey the lawful demands of the police".
Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
At a rally in Yerevan earlier this month, Galstanyan stated that opposition factions were ready to initiate impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan due to the territorial concessions.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.