CE INVESTIGATION GROUP TO MONITOR AZERBAIJANI HISTORIC & CULTURE MONUMENTS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY BY SUMMER 2007 – AZERBAIJANI MINISTER
Author: S.Agayeva
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Dec 8 2006
Abulfaz Garayev, the Azerbaijani Minister for Culture & Tourism, stated
to a news conference on 8 December that a visit of the Investigation
group of the Council of Europe (CE) to monitor the historic and culture
monuments of Azerbaijan in the occupied territory is scheduled for
summer 2007, Trend reports.
The Ministry of Culture & Tourism, the Ministry of National Security
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have developed and submitted
to the research mission of the CE, all factual documents relating
to the termination of historic and culture monuments of Azerbaijan
located in the occupied territory of Azerbaijan. ‘We are organizing
a day tour of the mission to Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani
territory under the Armenian occupation," the Minister stated.
The visit of the mission was originally scheduled to take place at
the beginning of September, but this was later postponed. At the
same time the Ministry continues to conduct research on the state of
culture and historic monuments left in the occupied territory.