Thousands of Armenians demonstrated against the government, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in protest against Yerevan's ceding of territory to Azerbaijan.
Protests erupted in the Caucasus country last month after the government agreed to hand over towns to Baku, which it has controlled since the 1990s.
In a major step towards normalizing relations between the two countries, which fought two wars over control of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Yerevan returned to Azerbaijan four border villages that it had controlled decades ago.
Yesterday, Sunday, thousands of Armenian citizens flocked to Republic Square in central Yerevan in a new demonstration led by Archbishop Bagrat Galestanyan, who hails from the Tavush region, where the villages that were handed over to Azerbaijan are located.
Galestanyan told the crowd: “Our people want to change the bitter reality that was imposed on us, and stabilizing the unstable borders with Azerbaijan must not happen until after signing a peace treaty with Baku.”
In a televised speech last Friday evening, Pashinyan defended territorial concessions, stressing that “resolving border disputes with Azerbaijan is the only guarantee for the existence of the Armenian Republic within its legitimate and internationally recognized borders.”