ALLAHSHUKUR PASHAZADE HAS BECOME REGULAR MAKE-SHIFT OF AZERBAIJANI AGITPROP ON SPREAD OF LIES
ArmInfo
2010-05-03 15:27:00
ArmInfo. Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, who arrived in Baku
to attend the World Religious Leaders Summit, has never visited
the so-called Alley of Shahids in Baku, Head of Holy Echmiadzin’s
press office, priest Vahram Melikyan told ArmInfo. "I was among our
delegation in Baku and I can safe say that Pashazade’s statement
does not meet the reality. Moreover, his assurances saying that "the
Armenian delegation went there at night, so no one would see them",
confirm their unreliability once again, as the Catholicos was back
to Yerevan in the evening, before dark", Melikyan said.
Head of the Caucasus Moslems Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazade
said in an interview with ANS on May 2 that the Catholicos of All
Armenians Garegin II, who arrived in Baku to attend the World Religious
Leaders Summit, allegedly visited also the Alley of Shahids. "I advised
Garegin II to visit the Alley of people who died for Nagorno-Karabakh,
to see the graves of our sons. They went there at night, so no one
would see them. The scene he saw moved him deeply", Pashazade said.
Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II left for Baku on April 26
on one-day visit at the invitation of Azerbaijan’s longtime Shi’a
Muslim leader, Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazade, and Russian
Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill. Garegin II met President
of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and visited the Armenian church of
St. Gregory the Illuminator in Baku currently being used as a book
depository. Garegin II returned to Yerevan in the evening of April 26.