"The Armenian side adheres to a destructive position and tries, however in vain, to reduce the Karabakh issue to the beginning of 1990-ies when the Armenian standpoint on the settlement process used to prevail," said Tahir Taghizade, the head of the department of press and information policy at the Azeri Foreign Ministry when commenting on the contest on the best monument model to Shushu liberation initiated by the Yerevan City Administration. "I am hopeful that the Armenian leadership will not take such a move taking into account the progress in the peaceful process," reports Novosti-Azerbaijan.

The 15th anniversary of liberation of Shushi - one of the cultural, educational and spiritual centers of Armenianhood of the 19th century - is marked in 2007. In this view, the Yerevan City Administration has announced an open contest for a monument model symbolizing the liberation of Shushi town (Karabakh) during the war with Azerbaijan. The memorial should symbolize the liberation struggle of the Armenian people in Artsakh.