PACE MISSION ON CULTURAL MONUMENTS TO VISIT AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA

Today, Azerbaijan
Feb 19 2007

The mission on cultural monuments of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit the South Caucasus in May
this year.

Edward O’Hara, General Rapporteur on Cultural Heritage of the PACE
Committee on Culture, Science and Education told the APA that the
mission could not visit the region in autumn last year because of
the weather and they decided to visit the region in summer.

O’Hara said the members of the mission have not coordinated all
the issues.

Commenting on erecting the monument devoted to Shusha’s occupation
in Yerevan, the rapporteur said they will not deal with this problem.

"My mission is engaged in historical-cultural monuments and their
state, not in politics. I never make political statements, on the
contrary I want to separate culture from politics," he said.

PACE mission will concern itself with the state of cultural monuments
in Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh, Nakhchivan).

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