UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL READY TO SEND EXPERTS TO REGION TO STUDY ISSUE OF ANNIHILATION OF ARMENIAN MONUMENTS OF OLD JUGHA

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 28 2006

BRATISLAVA, MARCH 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Ara Abrahamian,
the Chairman of the World Armenia Congress, as an ambassador of
kind will, touches upon the problem of annihilation of the Armenian
monuments of Old Jugha by Azeris, at the official meeting with Koichiro
Matsuura, the UNESCO Director General. As Noyan Tapan was informed by
Ashot Grigorian, the Chairman of the All-Armenian Structures European
Representation, the RA Foreign Minister’s Advisor, Ara Abrahamian
seriously condemned the vandalism towards cultural monuments in
general and the act of annihilation of the Old Jugha khachkars
presenting a great value for the Christian culture particularly,
mentioning that has too serious political consequences as well and
more distabilize the political state of South Caucasus. Informing
that RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian also negotiated with him
on that issue, Koichiro Matsuura expressed readines to send a group
of experts to the region to estimate and condemn the study of the
problem and of what happened. Details on experts’ visit will be known
soon. Ara Abrahamian also invited Koichiro Matsuura to visit Armenia
personally to get acquainted with treasures of the Armenian culture
closely. Koichiro Matsuura assured that as soon as he gets an official
invitation, he will schedule his visit to Armenia with pleasure.