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Soon after the announcement, thousands of people streamed to the main square in the Armenian capital of Yerevan to protest the agreement, many shouting “We won't give up our land!” Some of them broke into the main government building, saying they were searching for Pashinian.
Armenians from France gather at Place du Trocadero in Paris, to demonstrate against the situation in the separatist province of Nagorno-Karabakh, the scene of a bloody conflict for weeks with Azerbaijan. They seek the recognition of Artsakh. IMAGES
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Azerbaijan and Armenia exchanged prisoners Monday, a move stipulated in the peace deal between the two ex-Soviet nations that ended recent fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. FRANCE 24's International Affairs editor Philip Turle explains.
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