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Armenia condemns destruction of Christian cemetery in Baku |
Vladimir Karapetian, a spokesman for foreign ministry, said Armenia condemns the destruction of a Christian (Narimanov) cemetery in Azerbaijan’s capital city Baku. The cemetery had mainly Armenian and Russian graves, also of Georgians and Jews. The authorities in Baku have ordered destruction of the cemetery under the pretext of building a circumventing road to ease heavy traffic in downtown Baku, but images posted on the Internet show that the graves are being leveled by bulldozers and relatives have no opportunity to rebury the remains of their deceased. According to Vladimir Karapetian, this decision fits entirely into the rationale of the policy of the official Baku designed to completely eradicate Armenian cultural monuments in the territory of the Azerbaijani republic, to eliminate any trace of the rich Armenian legacy in Azerbaijan. He said now the official Baku is encroaching on the rights of other national minorities, particularly, Russians, who sent a letter to president Ilham Aliyev demanding that he orders an immediate end to this barbarism. “We regard the destruction of the Narimanov cemetery in Baku as continuation of the policy for destruction of the old Armenian cemetery in Julfa in the autonomous Nakhichevan, which is to be blamed also on international organizations, which have given in to Azerbaijani pressure and failed to display resolution and send a monitoring mission to Nakhichevan to assess the scale of destruction of Armenian monuments there,” he said.
/Translated by Marianna Karapetyan/
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 03.09.2010 20:03"Nagorno-Karabakh: How it was ...” New book for Wider Audience
The "Nagorno-Karabakh. How it was ...” book, published upon the initiative of RA President’s Public Relations and Information Center and prepared for a wide public audience, was provided September 2 – the Nagorno Karabakh's Independence Day – to the professional departments of higher educational institutions as well as to senior school libraries of the capital and the province of the Republic of Armenia, via RA Education and Science Ministry. An official from the RA President’s Public Relations and Information Center told Armenpress that the book presents and analyzes the historical, political, ethnic and cultural aspects of the Nagorno Karabakh issue, as well as monitors the real history of the conflict and separate episodes of the military operations. The book is not framed within the scopes of recording early historical facts, concerning the Nagorno Karabakh conflict: the whole truth about Sumgait tragedy is presented there in detail, about its organizers, destruction operations against the Armenian community, living in Baku, Jugha’s cultural crime, Genocide of Maragha, perpetrated by the Azerbaijanis, as well as Khojaly (currently Ivanyan) and Aghdam cases. Making particular attribution to the Azerbaijani sources (former President A. Mutalibov’s interview to “Nezavisemaya Gazeta” newspaper, Azerbaijani journalist Ch. Mustafaev’s observations and filming), the book presents the way the Azerbaijani authorities try to present themselves to the international community as a suffered party by slaughtering its own citizens – the Turks of Mskhet – on the approaches of Aghdam. All the observations in the book are based on actual materials, primary sources, photos and regulations, copies of original contracts.
/Translated by Marianna Karapetyan/
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03.09.2010 16:01
I am aware of what happened, OSCE official sates
The August 31 incident in the line of contact between Azerbaijani and NKR armed forces was unnecessary, Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk told APA news agency. Kasprzyk also noted that he had met with servicemen in Yerevan, Baku and Karabakh. “I am aware of what happened on the line of contact, but it is not in my competence to carry out investigation,” the source quotes the OSCE official. According to him, the reports are controversial.
As NEWS.am reported earlier, on August 31 the Azerbaijani side tried to commit another act of sabotage on the contact line between the Azeri and Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces near Verin Chailu.
/Translated by Marianna Karapetyan/
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