The decision to send a PACE fact-finding mission to the Armenian cemetery in Old Julfa to examine circumstances of destruction of khachkars was made in October 2005 by the CE Subcommittee on Cultural Heritage, Armenian MP, former member of the PACE Armenian delegation Shavarsh Kocharyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, head of the PACE Azeri delegation Samed Seidov merely lies. «I admit he might not know about the decision, but I can hardly believe it. The decision was made when I was still member of Armenia's delegation and Seidov's words that I might not know it are not true,» Kocharyan said.

PACE Azeri delegation head Samed Seidov had denied statement of former member of PACE Armenian delegation, MP Shavarsh Kocharyan that a PACE fact-finding mission will visit Nakhichevan to examine destruction of Armenian khachkars in Old Julfa in the spring 2006.