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STEPANAKERT REJECTED THE ACCUSATIONS OF AZERBAIJAN ON THE DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN NAG

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Minister of Education and Culture of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic /NKR/ Armen Sargissian called “a lame propagandistic step” the statement of Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Mourtouz Aleskerov that the walls of the Shoushi Fortress and other monuments are destroyed by Armenians.

On April 20, Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Mourtouz Aleskerov expressed his anxiety about the information on destroying the walls of the Shushi Fortress in Nagorno Karabakh. He stated on the necessity of informing the UNESCO and other international organizations “on the destructions of monuments of history and culture on the occupied lands”.

“The Persian mosque of the XIX century – a monument of the Muslim culture - is also under our state’s protection in Shoushi, and the statement that Armenians destroy the walls of the ancient Armenian fortress in the old capital of Nagorno Karabakh is out of sound logic”, - NKR Minister of Education and Culture said, commenting, on the request of Mediamax agency, Mourtouz Aleskerov’s statement.

Armen Sargissian did not exclude that “an impulse for such disinformation could serve the photo-exhibition in Stepanakert on the Armenian historical and cultural monuments of North Artsakh, which are currently under Azerbaijan’s control”. The exhibition testifies that for the last years, the Azerbaijani party has completely destroyed more than 200 Armenian churches and monasteries, over 120 cemeteries, 2.500 khachkars (cross-stones) and other monuments of Armenian culture in the Karabakh territory, which, as the Minister noted, evidently demonstrates the anti-Armenian policy of the official Baku.

“I think that the statement of the Azerbaijani Speaker is aimed at drawing the attention of the international community from this monstrous statistics and neutralizing any possible criticism towards Baku”, Armen Sargissian said.

Commenting on Aleskerov’s statement on the necessity of addressing the UNESCO and other international organizations, Armen Sargissian noted that “the Karabakh party itself was vitally interested in the evaluation of the situation by an international commission”. He emphasized that unlike Azerbaijan, the NKR authorities did not conduct the policy of destroying monuments, and expressed hope that “the study of the real situation in the region by international experts would allow to determine exactly who was, in fact, barbarously destroying the monuments of history and culture”.