COE: NO CONSENTS RECEIVED FROM YEREVAN AND BAKU ON CARRYING OUT MONITORING OF CULTURAL MONUMENTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2007 15:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The Council of Europe wants to send special experts
to Azerbaijan and Armenia for familiarizing with the situation of
historic-cultural monuments," Sec. Gen. of the Council of Europe
Terry Davis stated. He said in order to carry out a monitoring they
need to examine the whole territory, for which consents from both
sides are necessary. "We have not received such consents yet," the
CoE Sec. Gen. underlined.

Official Baku constructed a military training ground on the territory
of an Armenian cemetery in Old Djugha, Nakhichevan. Mass destruction
of khachkars (cross-stones) began in Old Djugha in 1998, when Azeri
soldiers with the help of bulldozers leveled the vast territory of old
Armenian cemeteries. After the world community condemned the actions
of Azerbaijan, distractions stopped and launched again in 2003. A lot
of khachkars were interred, and others were destroyed and thrown to
Araks River.

Nakhichevan is located on the territory of historical Armenia and
was in the make-up of the Armenian Republic in 1918-1920. On the
Moscow Treaty signed in 1921 between the Soviet Russia and Turkey
Nakhichevan region was handed over Azerbaijan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress