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Lawmaker warns EU against allocating $2,3 bln. to "authoritarian" Azerbaijan as Armenian monuments face destruction

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 15:13, 8 February, 2022

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Member of Parliament Sona Ghazaryan (Civil Contract Party) is sounding the alarm to the international community regarding Azeri Minister of Culture Anar Kerimov’s statement on launching a task force that would destroy and change the identity of Armenian religious and historical-cultural monuments that have gone under Azeri control.

“I’d like to once again address the international community and say that this Azerbaijani policy is a challenge to the United Nations International Court of Justice 2021 December 7 decision on provisional measures, as well as to remind our colleagues, especially our colleagues from the European Union, that they are directing 2,3 billion dollars to a country that stands out not only with its authoritarian regime, but also with its policy of vandalism and destruction of historical-cultural monuments against its neighbors,” Ghazaryan said.

The lawmaker mentioned that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted resolutions which have recorded the Azeri attempts to replace the Armenian monuments with fake Albanian monuments.

“I’d also like to remind our colleagues, that it turns out that when our cultural monuments were being bombarded during the war, factually the double-strike bombing of Shushi’s Ghazanchetsots Cathedral wasn’t an accident after all contrary to the authoritarian leader’s claims, but rather a clear strategy of erasing Armenian traces. I am addressing this question to our international partners: whom are you giving that billions and for what?”

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