Foreign Ministry warns Czechs not to travel to Nagorno-Karabakh

The Czech Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens not to travel to the frozen conflict zone of Nagorno-Karabakh and areas near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan due to recent escalating tensions in the area. The ministry has also recommended avoiding large gatherings of people in central Yerevan, Armenia's capital, due to the increasingly high probability of clashes between protesters and police officers. According to the ministry, the Czech embassies in Yerevan and Baku have very limited capabilities of providing consular protection and assistance in hard-to-reach places.

Azerbaijani troops carried out a military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh last week, with large parts of the predominantly ethnic Armenian population fleeing amid fears of persecution and ethnic cleansing.