Police detain people protesting against Azerbaijani customs checkpoint on Kapan-Goris road

YEREVAN, November 11. /ARKA/. Armenian police have detained today morning several people who were protesting against setting up border and customs checkpoints on a section of Kapan-Goris road in the southern Armenia by Azerbaijan.

The protesters gathered in front of the government building and then tried to block the Tigran Mets Avenue.

The news that Azerbaijan has set up border and customs checkpoints on a section of the Kapan-Goris road was announced November 10 late in the evening by secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan. He said the Armenia side will also set up border and customs checkpoints on that section.

Protesters today were led by an opposition lawmaker Gegham Manukyan. Addressing other protesters

Manukyan accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of betraying the interests of the Motherland and of "capitulation".

“If as many police officers as now stand at the building and guard members of the government, stood in the Syunik region on the highway, then no one would dare to establish customs checkpoints on the Armenian territory,” Manukyan said. He said the citizens of Armenia must demand an account from the authorities for the "betrayal". -0-