BAKU’S VANDALISM IN NAKHICHEVAN IN 2006 AT THE CENTER OF ATTENTION OF RA MFA
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.01.2007 15:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The relations with Azerbaijan in 2006 were of
limited character and were conditioned in the frameworks of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict peace talks. A number of meetings were
organized during international forums, and the representatives of
Media of both countries had several meetings, says the annual report
of RA MFA on Armenia’s foreign activities in 2006. Alongside, the
report underlines that the destruction of Armenian cemetery in Old
Djulfa in Nakhichevan casts doubt on Azerbaijan’s will to walk along
peaceful way of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
"Armenia gives a special significance to the deliberate destruction of
the Armenian cultural heritage by the Azeri authorities, since those
displays of vandalism not only destroy cultural monuments, but also
do not contribute to the establishing of mutual confidence between
the two nations. Azerbaijan’s actions in Nakhichevan in 2006 were
at the center of attention of the RA MFA. In this regard a number
of measures were taken in several directions at once. The Armenian
MFA informed the international community on the vandalism, which
was condemned by CoE and UNESCO. Currently the Azeri side refuses to
grant mandates to any international mission for visiting Nakhichevan
to estimate the situation on khachkars," says the report.