(21 Sep 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yerevan - 21 September 2023
1. Wide of crowd gathered in street
2. Police officers with riot shields walking by
3. Various of protesters waiting around
4. Police van pulling up
5. Police officers removing bench
6. Police vehicles driving by
7. Protesters putting bench back
8. Protester screaming at policeman
9. Mid of crosswalk
10. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Andranik Manukyan, Yerevan resident:
"I’m here with one demand, which is to open the humanitarian corridor so that our compatriots can safely leave Artsakh [Nagorno Karabakh]. I know many people there who want to leave and cannot implement that right. They are staying there at the cost of theirs, their relatives and children's lives."
11. Protesters on and around bench
12. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Nara Vardanyan, Yerevan resident: (wearing t-shirt that reads “I demand a humanitarian corridor”)
"Those are not talks, those are forced meetings for the people who don’t have any choice or alternative and I don’t know how much they will be able to maintain their position or dignity. Is there any possibility for the people who are in the blockade to keep their dignity and even to try to suggest something?"
13. Protesters marching, holding up banners and Armenian flag
14. Protesters holding up signs
STORYLINE:
Protests continued in the Armenian capital for a third straight day as representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan government held a first round of talks on the future of the breakaway region.

The demonstrators in Yerevan demanded that authorities defend Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Azerbaijan says it now fully controls the region following a military offensive this week.

Local Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabkah on Wednesday agreed to disarm and disband following a new round of shelling and drone attacks launched by Azerbaijan in the decades-long conflict.

The office of President Ilham Aliyev said the talks included discussions on the “reintegration” of Nagorno-Karabakh and the local Armenian population into Azerbaijan.

It said regional representatives asked for fuel and food, and Azerbaijani officials agreed to provide humanitarian aid, including energy to heat schools.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been deprived for months of basic supplies, including medicine, due to a blockade by Azerbaijan that severed the only road link to Armenia in the southern Caucasus Mountains region.

Pashinyan on Thursday evening said that “at this moment" there was no direct threat to the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh and that preparations were being made for receiving residents who decide to flee the region.

The prime minster, who had previously recognized Azerbaijan’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh, has said his government didn’t take part in negotiating the deal, but “has taken note” of the decision made by the region’s separatist authorities.


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