Friday, April 26 2024 17:34

ArmInfo.Protests of disobedience continue throughout the country. Since early morning, citizens who disagree with the policies of the current Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan have been holding chaotic actions of  disobedience throughout the country. In order to prevent the closure of the capital's main highways, the traffic police banned heavy trucks from entering Yerevan in the morning.

In the morning, a number of streets in Yerevan were blocked for a  short period. Then citizens paralyzed the Yerevan-Etchmiadzin road.  The police opened the road with difficulty. Dozens of citizens were  detained.  At these moments, a tense situation developed on the  Sevan-Yerevan highway. The police, using brutal disproportionate  force, detained MP from the "Armenia¯ opposition faction Artur  Khachatryan. Dozens of protesters were also detained from the  interstate highway.

Despite the fact that for several days now citizens have been  subjected to disproportionate force by law enforcement officers,  Human Rights Defender of Armenia Anahit Manasyan continues to pretend  that nothing is happening. She carefreely attends various kinds of  conferences and holds meetings on duty, and her Office continues to  post photo sessions from this so-called important work. And the  citizens she is supposed to protect as part of her mandate continue  to face police brutality.  Residents of the border villages of Tavush  have been holding protests on the Armenia-Georgia interstate road on  the Kiran-Voskepar section since April 19. They oppose the border  delimitation option agreed upon by Yerevan and Baku, as a result of  which strategic heights will pass to Azerbaijan and Armenian villages  will be completely or partially surrounded. Residents of Tavush have  been spending the seventh night on the blocked Voskepar-Kirants road.

In addition, actions of disobedience broke out throughout the country  demanding an end to unilateral concessions to the enemy. The police  are harshly dispersing the protesters.

On April 19, the commissions for demarcation of the border between  Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to begin demarcation of the border from  the Tavush region. According to them, the description of these  sections of the border line will be drawn up taking into account the  clarification of the coordinates that will be obtained as a result of  geodetic measurements on site. All this will be documented in the  appropriate protocol description, which must be agreed upon and  signed between the parties before May 15 of this year.  Let us add  that in this area, Armenia is unilaterally surrendering the country's  sovereign territories, fixed by the same Alma-Ata Declaration,  without receiving anything in return, including guarantees of non-  aggression. People are simply thrown out of their homes in a number  of border villages in order to pacify Azerbaijan, depriving them of  the opportunity to visit the graves of their ancestors, cultivate  their lands, pray in their churches and simply live in safety. And  according to experts the greetings of a number of countries in the  current conditions look, to put it mildly, blasphemous.