More than 6,500 people have crossed into Armenia so far, resulting in long traffic queues at the border
The mass movement of citizens continues of the breakaway Azeri enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized the disputed territory last week.
More than 6,500 people have crossed into Armenia so far, resulting in long traffic queues at the border.
Armenia’s prime minister has warned that ethnic cleansing is “ongoing” in the region.
“This is happening just now, and this is a very unfortunate fact because we were trying to urge the international community on this,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reporters.
Azerbaijan has said it wants to reintegrate Armenians as “equal citizens”.
Envoys from Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to meet for talks in Brussels later on Tuesday. These are the first such talks since the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller urged the two sides to reach a lasting peace deal.
In Karabakh’s main city, Stepanakert, an explosion at a gas station is said to have seriously injured more than 200 people, local human rights ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan wrote in a post on the X platform.
Meanwhile, more than 140 people were arrested in Yerevan yesterday, Monday after the latest anti-government protests, according to local media citing the country’s interior ministry.
The Tass news agency reported that special forces began arresting protesters who blocked streets in Yerevan.
Police were also outside the central government building, which houses the prime minister’s offices and which protesters were trying to storm.
Source :Skai
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