BAKU: About 300 Armenian Families From Armenia And Foreign Countries

ABOUT 300 ARMENIAN FAMILIES FROM ARMENIA AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES MOVED TO OCCUPIED LANDS OF AZERBAIJAN LAST YEAR

Azeri Press Agency
May 14 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Ramil Mammadli-APA. Association of Civil Society Development
Centre and Public Union on Defense of Rights of Migrants and IDPs in
Azerbaijan has held a roundtable on settlement of Armenians in the
occupied lands of Azerbaijan, APA reports.

Adil Abdullayev, Chairman of Public Union sated that Migration
Organizations established in Armenia and so-called "Nagorno Karabakh
republic" has been engaged in settlement of Armenians in Karabakh
and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan. About 300 Armenians
were moved to the occupied lands of Azerbaijan last year. Faig
Ismayilov, head of the Organization on Protection of Historical and
Cultural Monuments noted that Armenian Cultural Centre was engaged in
Armenianizing of Azerbaijani monuments in the occupied lands. Ismayilov
noted that he had concrete facts about it.

"Orthodox and Albanian Churches are reconstructed as Armenian
monuments. Armenian cross is on several monuments. Things found
in Azikh cave during the expedition in 2000-2006 have been sent to
London", he said. Appeal on the behalf of attendees to international
organizations has been adopted at the event.