ARMENIA TO SEEK INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN MONUMENTS IN AZERBAIJAN

Armenpress
Jan 09 2007

YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, ARMENPRESS: Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian said
today one of the foreign policy priorities this year will be to seek
international condemnation of destruction of Armenian monuments,
particularly, of a medieval cemetery in neighboring Azerbaijan’s
exclave Nakhichevan.

The government launched last year a traveling photo exhibition of
destruction of monuments at this ethnic Armenian cemetery.

The monuments in question are intricate stone-carved crosses in the
cemetery at Jugha – alternately known as Julfa – in Nakhichevan,
an exclave wedged between Armenia and Iran and Turkey.

Azerbaijani soldiers have systematically destroyed the crosses. Photos
supporting the claim were shown in Strasbourg, France, and will be
moved to a new city every two months.

Oskanian said today Armenian diplomats will work to have the Council
of Europe, UNESCO and other international organizations to condemn
this barbaric acts.