News - Police, protesters clash near Armenia MFA building

If this meeting did not take place, you have the right to enter the website of the foreign ministry, remove everyone's photos, and present them as agents, lackeys, ambassadors, representatives acting under the Turkish-Azerbaijani authorities; name them whatever you want. This was announced by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the Tavush for the Homeland movement, in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia—and addressing the people who have assembled there. Archbishop Galstanyan noted that public oversight should not be absent, and each and every person should be accountable for his actions. "So, all the accountability for whatever happens here will remain on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs," he added, in part. Subsequently, the situation became tense. Police chief Aram Hovhannisyan also arrived there. Protesters started releasing colored smoke into the air. And a clash broke out between the police and demonstrators. The protests and civil disobedience actions by the Tavush for the Homeland movement, led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, had started in Armenia after it became known on April 19 that Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to start border delimitation at Tavush Province of Armenia. Leading a respective march of protest from Tavush to Yerevan on May 9, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, then Primate of the Diocese of Tavush of the Armenian Apostolic Church, called on PM Nikol Pashinyan to resign.