ArmInfo. Deputy director of the authoritative French Le Figaro magazine, journalist Jean-Christophe Buisson criticized UNESCO for its inaction against the backdrop of the destruction of the Armenian cemetery by the Azerbaijanis in the occupied territories of Artsakh.
"Hello UNESCO! Can you solemnly ask the Baku authorities why the Armenian cemetery in the village of Hin Shen of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) occupied by Azerbaijan since November 2020 has disappeared? If not, what are you doing?" Buisson wrote on his microblog on Twitter. It should be noted that despite the trilateral agreements at the level of the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia dated November 9, 2020, so far the UNESCO mission has not been able to visit the region. Azerbaijan is torpedoing the visit in every possible way, while at the same time erasing the traces of the Armenian presence in the territories of Artsakh seized as a result of the war. Back on November 20, 2020, UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay announced the readiness of the organization to send a mission to Karabakh to help restore the cultural and historical heritage of the region. And already in December of the same year, Deputy Director General of UNESCO Ernesto Ottone noted that the organization "so far is only waiting for Azerbaijan's response so that UNESCO can continue to work with sending a mission to the field." In turn, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, in a communique issued on December 22, 2020, called on UNESCO not to politicize the issue of protecting cultural heritage in Karabakh and stated that Baku "is open to a constructive dialogue to discuss the details of organizing the mission." The Russian Foreign Ministry has also repeatedly stated that Moscow expects a UNESCO mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh in the near future.