The U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mark Libby, visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, becoming the first senior American diplomat to set foot in the region since the 2020 war and the subsequent exodus of its ethnic Armenian population.
An outspoken archbishop and his supporters began marching on Saturday to Yerevan from a border village in the northern Tavush province that has been the epicenter of two-week protests against the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
A senior Turkish diplomat on Tuesday reportedly praised the Armenian government for agreeing to cede contested border areas to Azerbaijan, saying the move shows that Armenia is “moving in the right direction.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met on Monday with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province that has been the epicenter of continuing protests against his decision to make territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Police clashed with residents of an Armenian border village and detained other people, including an opposition parliamentarian, on Friday amid ongoing protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s decision to hand over four border areas to Azerbaijan.