NKR FOREIGN MINISTRY CAUGHT ELHAN POLUKHOV IN MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.11.2009 18:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan
Polukhov has made his successive attempt to represent Karabakh in
the negative light. This time he accused Armenians of destroying of
Azerbaijani cemeteries, NKR Foreign Ministry says in a comment.

"It should be noted that unlike our neighbors who are to date
barbarously destroying Armenian monuments on territories under
their control, from the very first days of Azeri-imposed war, NKR
authorities took under their own protection all NKR-based Muslim
monuments, including Azerbaijani cemeteries, as can be witnessed by
several international and Azerbaijani delegations visiting Nagorno
Karabakh," says the statement. "This is what Polukhov is trying to
speculate. Unfortunately, such falsifications have been practiced
by Azerbaijani propaganda machine for a long time. Everybody still
remembers how Heydar Aliyev Fund, which is under the high patronage
of the Aliyev family, attempted to represent photos taken in Kosovo
as pictures depicting Khojalu events.

Polukhov’s statements can be assessed as a regular attempt to cast
a shadow on the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and distract international
community’s attention from Azeri-provoked vandalism against Armenian
monuments, particularly, destruction of Narimanov cemetery in Baku
under the pretext of building a highway, or the recent destruction
of khachkars (cross stones) in Old Jugha, Nakhichevan, which saw no
military operations.

To confirm the abovementioned, let’s quote an excerpt from U.S. State
Department’s recent report on religious freedoms. "Animosity toward
ethnic Armenians in the country forced most of them to depart between
1988 and 1990, and all Armenian churches, many of which were damaged in
ethnic riots that took place more than a decade ago, remained closed."