News - Civil disobedience actions resume in Yerevan in the morning

People have resumed their actions of civil disobedience in various parts of Yerevan Friday morning. In particular, they closed off Azatutyan Avenue, in support of the residents of Armenia’s Tavush Province. A big truck stopped and blocked the avenue. Separately, a spontaneous awareness campaign was carried out also in Davtashen District, where people closed off a road for 15 minutes. "This is not only the issue of the strategic territories of Tavush; this is the issue of all Armenians and Armenia," one protester said. As reported earlier, on April 19, the Armenian and Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions agreed to start border delimitation from Tavush Province of Armenia. The description of the given sections of the border line will be drawn up taking into account the clarification of the coordinates made as a result of geodetic measurements on the site, and this will be worded in a corresponding protocol-description, which must be agreed upon and signed by the two parties before May 15. The office of the Prime Minister of Armenia had announced that as a result of all this, Azerbaijan will receive 2.5 villages, and Armenia will get a reduction of security risks related to border delimitation. A few hundred meters of the motorway will be changed in the Kirants village section, whereas Voskepar village will not have a motorway problem. After the border delimitation, the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan will withdraw in the area of the four villages, and they will be replaced by the border guards of the two countries. Residents of Tavush’s border villages have been protesting on the Armenia-Georgia interstate motorway since April 19. They are against the aforesaid version of border delimitation agreed between Armenia and Azerbaijan.