UNESCO WORKS ON SENDING OBSERVERS TO NAKHIJEVAN
AZG Armenian Daily
24/05/2007
UNESCO works on sending observers to Nakhijevan to examine the state
of Armenian monuments in Nakhijevan.
Rony Amelan, UNESCO worker of the Department of public information,
announced that they were working with Armenian and Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministries on making more exact the time and the route of
this special mission.
A reminder, in 2005 the Azerbaijani soldiers demolished the Armenian
cemeteries of Old Jugha, destroyed and threw into the river thousands
of khachkars and tombstones. And when an issue was raised about
organizing observers’ mission to examine the state of Armenian
monuments in Nakhijevan, Azerbaijan demanded to involve also Nagorno
Karabakh in this mission. The worker of UNESCO Department of public
information informed that it was not clear yet if the Azerbaijani
demand would be satisfied.