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In the early hours of Tuesday, crowds of angry protesters stormed the government headquarters in Yerevan to protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s agreement to cease fire in the Nagorno Karabakh region, according to an AFP journalist.
And as soon as Pashinyan announced that it had signed a “painful” agreement with Azerbaijan for a ceasefire in the disputed region between the two countries, thousands of angry protesters flocked to the government headquarters, where most of them gathered. demonstrated in front of the headquarters, while a few hundred of them stormed and wreaked havoc in their offices and broke glass. Several of its windows.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced early Tuesday that he had signed a “painful” agreement with both Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region.
“I signed a statement with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan to end the war in Karabakh,” Pashinyan said in a statement on his Facebook page, describing this step as “indescribably painful, both for me personally and for our people.”
Pashnyan said he would deliver a speech to the nation “in the next few days.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also confirmed the signing of the agreement with Armenia, saying, in a hypothetical meeting with Putin, reported by the media, that “the tripartite agreement will become a fundamental point to stop the conflict.”
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that an agreement had been reached on a “comprehensive ceasefire” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and indicated that Russia will work to deploy peacekeeping forces in the disputed region.
In a statement released by the Russian media at dawn on Tuesday, Putin said: “On November 9, the President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of the Russian Federation signed a declaration establishing a high the complete fire and puts an end to all military operations in the conflict zone in Nagorno Karabakh, in the middle of the night of November 10, Moscow time “.
The agreement coincided with Armenia’s announcement on Monday that fighting continues to control the strategic city of Shusha in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region, after Azerbaijan announced that it had captured it from Armenian separatist forces.
Aliyev announced on Sunday that his forces had taken control of Shusha, known to Armenians as Shushi, which is a strategically vital city and the second largest in the disputed region.
Armenian officials denied this claim, saying that fighting continues in the area.
