E. NALBANDYAN: ARMENIA NOT AGAINST UNESCO MISSION VISIT
Panorama.am
22:13 04/06/2008
Armenia is not against that UNESCO carries out research in its
territory on cultural monuments, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan in a meeting with the journalists today.
"We are not against receiving the experts of UNESCO both in Armenia
and Karabakh. But Azerbaijan every time creates some obstacles to the
implementation of the mission," said the minister and added that the
issue has been discussed many timers either with UNESCO authorities
or other high ranking bodies.
The minister said that the question of whether the mission arrives in
Armenia or not is not certain. "The mission should visit Azerbaijan
also but for that they need to make arrangements with them. That is
the point why Koishiro Mazooro the director of UNESCO is so careful
in his expressions," stated Nalbandyan.
"The problem is that Armenian cultural heritage is being destroyed
and thousands of them have been destroyed before. This is not the
middle age when we should sit calmly and watch how our heritage is
demolished and no initiative is taken," he said.
Remind: thousands Armenian khachcars (cross stones) have been
demolished under ground or broken and poured into Araks river.