Opposition parties in Armenia on Wednesday resumed street protests in The capital, Yerevan in An attempt to overthrow Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over treat it of territorial dispute with Azerbaijan.
in thousands of Opposition supporters have mobilized daily since Sunday and briefly closed the streets in Central Yerevan in a campaign to force Al-Bashini to resign.
Opposition leaders accused him of Conspiracy to cede everything to Azerbaijan of Long-disputed Karabakh regionformerly known as Nagorno-Karabakh, over who arch countries fought two wars, in 2020 and in the nineties.
On Wednesday, the demonstrators stopped the cement mixers on bridges in Yerevan, briefly disrupt traffic in the capital while small groups of Opposition supporters tried to block city’s main roads.
Dozens of people have been arrested by the police of people, journalist at Agence France-Presse witnessed. Opposition leaders said that more from 200 people who They were arrested on Tuesday was released the same day.
opposition leader and parliament “Protests will escalate last Even Pashinyan steps down. “
He said the opposition is planning to install “temporary government of technocrats “without party affiliation.
Ongoing protests highlight bitterness over Pashinian leadership since six week war in 2020 over Karabakh that claimed more More than 6500 lives before it ends with Russian-mediated haltfire.
Under the agreement, Armenia ceded vast areas of The lands they controlled for Decades, Russia has deployed about 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the armistice.
agreement seen in Armenia as a national And the effects of humiliation for weeks of opposite-government protests, leading Pashinyan for call The snap in parliamentary polls that has a civil partyعقد won last September.
Opposition parties accused Pashinyan of Plans for give away from Baku parts of Karabakh which is still under Armenian control – after informing the deputies last the month that “international community calls on Armenia on a large scale down stimulate on Karabakh”.
Armenian separatists in Karabakh separated from Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The ensuing conflicts killed about 30,000 people.
