AZERI MONUMENTS IN THE WHOLE TERRITORY OF ARMENIA?

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[07:48 pm] 17 April, 2006

For the discussion of the issue of the preservation of the historical
monuments the Azeri side has prepared a document trying to prove that
there used to be Azeri monuments in the whole territory of Armenia
the overwhelming majority of which has been destroyed.

Tigran Torosyan, the head of the RA delegation to PACE and NA Deputy
Speaker informed about it today.

“Naturally, it is one of the usual falsifications, but we must
seriously get ready to answer them”, Mr.

Torosyan said. In May and June a representative of CE will visit the
region, including Armenia, to investigate the issue of the preservation
of the monuments.

By the way, the reporters of the Monitoring group will be in
Armenia on September 25-27 and will get acquainted with the course
of the legislative reforms after the Constitutional reforms. The
draft report will be represented in October in the session of the
Monitoring Committee. The final report will be represented after the
2007 Parliamentary election, at the end of the year. Tigran Sargsyan
mentioned that the only thing we can do today is to hope that the
2007 elections will be held so well that Armenia will overcome the
monitoring phase and enter the post-monitoring one.

During the press conference Tigran Torosyan represented the work of
the PACE April session. This time the opposition and the coalition
acted unanimously: during the discussion about corruption Armen
Roustamyan and Stepan Demirchyan made speech, Tigran Torosyan and
Artashes Geghamyan spoke about the issues of the Middle East, Hermine
Naghdalyan expressed her opinion about issues of the protection of
human rights, and Tigran Torosyan spoke from the Armenian side about
the refugees. During the discussion of this issue Samed Seidov,
the head of the Azeri delegation represented the Azeri point of view.

The head of the Georgian delegation made speech too.

According to Tigran Torosyan, during the discussion of the issue
statistics about the refugees were made public, which did not proceed
from the interests of the Azeris. The numbers mentioned in the document
revealed that the announcements of Azerbaijan about 1 billion refugees
do not correspond to the reality.

Azerbaijan represented 18 offers about the adopted resolution. Five of
them were accepted, and all of them presupposed editorial changes. As
for the calls on the three countries to cooperate about the issue
of the refugees and their voluntary return, they remained in the
resolution, although the Azeri delegation was against them.

It is noteworthy that the Armenian delegates did not miss the chance
and announced that the issue of the refugees rose after the Sumgayit
and Baku massacres and that the majority of the Azeri who left Karabakh
sold their houses before leaving.