Eurovision Organizational Committee led by Baku and removed Armenian
monument from Armenia’s video reel
16.05.2009 18:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ministry of Foreign Affaires of Armenia called on to
return the monument, which is a pattern of the Armenian cultural
heritage.
Azerbaijan, yielding no opportunity of anti-Armenian propaganda and
sometimes carrying to the point of absurdity, distinguished during the
Eurovision-2009 pop music contest. This time the Azeri part did not
like the image of the monument We and our Mountains pictured in the
video reel, beforehand the performance of Inga and Anush Arshakyan,
who represented Armenia in the contest.
Baku officially required from the Eurovision committee, Russia’s
foreign ministry and the First Channel to remove the image of Armenian
monument `We and our Mountains’ from the video reel, stating that `the
monument is located in Nagorno Karabakh, and Nagorno Karabakh is
Azerbaijan’s territory’. Organizers of the contest fulfilled that
requirement and removed the image of the monument from the video reel.
As Diana Mnatsakanyan, advisor to chief executive of Armenian Public
Television, told to a PanARMENIAN.Net, in this connection the ministry
of foreign affairs of Armenia addressed to Russia’s foreign ministry a
letter, calling on the organizational committee of Eurovision-2009 to
return the monument. The work of the Armenian sculptor Sargis
Baghdasaryan, who was a national artist of the Armenian SSR, is a
vivid pattern of the Armenian cultural heritage