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Agreement sparks outrage in Armenia, with angry protesters storming government headquarters in Yerevan.
Hello, and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Anealla Safdar in London and Shereena Qazi in Doha will be bringing you updates.
A quick recap of events so far:
- Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described the development as “unspeakably painful” in an emotional Facebook post.
- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev tweeted: “This is a historic day, An end is being put to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.”
- Anger is boiling in Yerevan. Twenty minutes after Pashinyan’s Facebook post, protesters forced their way into the main government building in Yerevan, calling on the prime minister to go.
- Pashinyan on Tuesday said he had concluded the peace deal under pressure from his own army, which said all military action in Nagorno-Karabakh had stopped and the situation was calm.
- The deal came after Armenia lost control of a strategic city in Nagorno-Karabakh known as Shusha to Azerbaijan and Shushi to Armenians, and after the accidental downing of a Russian plane by Azeri forces.
Russian, Turkish foreign ministers to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh truce, says Moscow
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu have discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh deal to end the conflict by phone, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman told the Echo Moskvy radio station.
Armenian PM says military actions in Nagorno-Karabakh not over yet: Reuters
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says military actions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region are not completely finished yet, after signing an agreement to end the conflict.
This stance contradicts the army’s announcement, that the situation is calm.
Armenian PM says he signed the deal on army’s insistence
Pashinyan says he made the decision to sign the ceasefire agreement over the Nagorno-Karabakh region after the army insisted on it.
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia said in the early hours of Tuesday they had signed a deal to end the military conflict over the region after more than a month of bloodshed.
Protests in Yerevan
The agreement sparked outrage in Armenia, with angry protesters storming the government headquarters in the capital Yerevan where they ransacked offices and broke windows.
Crowds also entered Parliament and demanded the resignation of Pashinyan, who earlier described his participation in the accord as “unspeakably painful for me personally and for our people”.
There are reports of further protests planned for Tuesday.
Turkey says Azerbaijan achieved ‘sacred success’
Turkey says the deal secured important gains for its close ally Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia.
“The brotherly Azerbaijan has achieved an important gain on the battleground and table. I sincerely congratulate this sacred success,” Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
“We will continue to be one nation, one spirit with our Azeri brothers.”
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