SAMVEL KARAPETYAN: APPROPRIATION OF ARMENIAN AND PERSIAN MONUMENTS PECULIAR TO AZERBAIJAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.01.2009 19:03 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is one mosque and several shrines in the
liberated territories surrounding Nagorno Karabakh. At that, the
architects of the shrines are Armenians by origin, an Armenian
historian said.
"The mosque of Gandzak built in 1620 under Shah Abbas and the mosque
of Shushi built in the 18th century are the monuments of Persian
architecture," Samvel Karapetyan told a news conference today.
"Meanwhile, Baku is confident that all Muslim monuments belong to
Azerbaijan," he said, adding that Iran is indignant over appropriation
of its monuments.
According to Trend Azeri news agency, TURKSOY international
organization founded by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and
Turkmenistan in 1993 is preparing a list of historical and cultural
monuments of Nagorno Karabakh to submit it to UNESCO.