Azerbaijan flag is raised on Armenian church, says Armenia MP

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Dec 6 2020

Azerbaijan flag is raised on Armenian church, says Armenia MP

19:28, 06.12.2020

Naira Zohrabyan, an MP of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party, posted on Facebook a photo of the Vankasar Church in Aghdam District of Karabakh (Artsakh).

"The flag of Azerbaijan was raised on the White Cross Church in Vankasar. Traitors and those who justify betrayal be cursed thrice," Zohrabyan wrote as attachment to this photo.

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities— which Azerbaijan had launched on September 27—in and around Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities. But this statement also stipulates the handover of part of Artsakh lands to Azerbaijan.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS