Eurovision Organizational Committee led by Baku and removed Armenian monument from Armenia's video reel

PanARMENIAN.Net - Ministry of Foreign Affaires of Armenia called on to return the monument, which is a pattern of the Armenian cultural heritage.



Azerbaijan, yielding no opportunity of anti-Armenian propaganda and sometimes carrying to the point of absurdity, distinguished during the Eurovision-2009 pop music contest. This time the Azeri part did not like the image of the monument We and our Mountains pictured in the video reel, beforehand the performance of Inga and Anush Arshakyan, who represented Armenia in the contest.



Baku officially required from the Eurovision committee, Russia's foreign ministry and the First Channel to remove the image of Armenian monument "We and our Mountains" from the video reel, stating that "the monument is located in Nagorno Karabakh, and Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijan's territory". Organizers of the contest fulfilled that requirement and removed the image of the monument from the video reel.



As Diana Mnatsakanyan, advisor to chief executive of Armenian Public Television, told to a

PanARMENIAN.Net in this connection the ministry of foreign affairs of Armenia addressed to Russia's foreign ministry a letter, calling on the organizational committee of Eurovision-2009 to return the monument. The work of the Armenian sculptor Sargis Baghdasaryan, who was a national artist of the Armenian SSR, is a vivid pattern of the Armenian cultural heritage