Dozens of college students in Armenia today marched from the Yerevan State University campus to the Government Building and called on the government to take steps to reopen the Lachin Corridor that has been blocked by a group of Azerbaijani “eco-activists” for over one week.

The students urged the government to raise the issue with the United Nations and called on the U.N. Security Council to dispatch a monitoring mission to the corridor.

They also called on the Armenian parliament to adopt legislation recognizing the independence of Artsakh based on the December 1991 independence referendum in Nagorno Karabakh in which 82% of all voters participated and 99% voted for independence.