03:18Mass demonstrations against the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process, and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, continued in Yerevan on Monday.
Footage shows demonstrators waving national flags and chanting slogans while car drivers sounded their horns in support. The video also captures police officers detaining protesters.
According to media reports, police officers detained 151 people, while the Armenian Union of Journalists alleged 'unprecedented brutality' on the part of law enforcement. The authorities have not responded at time of publication.
The latest round of negotiations - the 'Bilateral Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations' - between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia commenced on May 10 in Almaty.
Opposition figure and founder of Genesis Armenia Analytical Foundation Abraham Gasparyan said that 'the Armenian people will not bend their knees', while one of the rally's organisers, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, claimed opposition party factions would start impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan.
Residents reportedly started the protest march on Saturday, May 4, from the border village of Kirants. Last week, Pashinyan said he would not comply with their demands.
"You say stop the process, but what will happen after that? There will only be one thing - a war will break out. At least by analysing who is reacting to this process and how, I am sure that this was the goal - to prevent delimitation, the inevitable consequence of which will be war," the prime minister said.
On April 19, the Armenian Foreign Ministry announced that four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - would be transferred to Baku.
Following 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.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, while last year the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim - but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.
Yerevan rally participants detained amid protests against border delimitation with Azerbaijan
Mass demonstrations against the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process, and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, continued in Yerevan on Monday.
Footage shows demonstrators waving national flags and chanting slogans while car drivers sounded their horns in support. The video also captures police officers detaining protesters.
According to media reports, police officers detained 151 people, while the Armenian Union of Journalists alleged 'unprecedented brutality' on the part of law enforcement. The authorities have not responded at time of publication.
The latest round of negotiations - the 'Bilateral Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations' - between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia commenced on May 10 in Almaty.
Opposition figure and founder of Genesis Armenia Analytical Foundation Abraham Gasparyan said that 'the Armenian people will not bend their knees', while one of the rally's organisers, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, claimed opposition party factions would start impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan.
Residents reportedly started the protest march on Saturday, May 4, from the border village of Kirants. Last week, Pashinyan said he would not comply with their demands.
"You say stop the process, but what will happen after that? There will only be one thing - a war will break out. At least by analysing who is reacting to this process and how, I am sure that this was the goal - to prevent delimitation, the inevitable consequence of which will be war," the prime minister said.
On April 19, the Armenian Foreign Ministry announced that four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - would be transferred to Baku.
Following 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.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, while last year the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim - but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.
Mass demonstrations against the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process, and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, continued in Yerevan on Monday.
Footage shows demonstrators waving national flags and chanting slogans while car drivers sounded their horns in support. The video also captures police officers detaining protesters.
According to media reports, police officers detained 151 people, while the Armenian Union of Journalists alleged 'unprecedented brutality' on the part of law enforcement. The authorities have not responded at time of publication.
The latest round of negotiations - the 'Bilateral Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations' - between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia commenced on May 10 in Almaty.
Opposition figure and founder of Genesis Armenia Analytical Foundation Abraham Gasparyan said that 'the Armenian people will not bend their knees', while one of the rally's organisers, head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, claimed opposition party factions would start impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan.
Residents reportedly started the protest march on Saturday, May 4, from the border village of Kirants. Last week, Pashinyan said he would not comply with their demands.
"You say stop the process, but what will happen after that? There will only be one thing - a war will break out. At least by analysing who is reacting to this process and how, I am sure that this was the goal - to prevent delimitation, the inevitable consequence of which will be war," the prime minister said.
On April 19, the Armenian Foreign Ministry announced that four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - would be transferred to Baku.
Following 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.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, while last year the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim - but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.