Armenia, Lithuania stress preservation of Karabakh heritageMay 20, 2022 - 18:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has promised to support the preservation of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) cultural heritage that remained in territories controlled by Azerbaijan, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan told reporters after the two held a meeting in Yerevan on Friday, May 20. Khachaturyan noted that the efforts of Armenia aimed at establishing lasting peace in the region were discussed during the meeting. According to him, the views of Lithuania and Armenia on the matter are identical. "The need to preserve Armenian cultural monuments in Artsakh and under the control of Azerbaijan was especially emphasized. President Gitanas Nausėda promised to support the preservation of the Armenian Christian cultural heritage in every possible way," Khachaturyan said. "In that context, the visit of a UNESCO expert mission to territories under the control of Artsakh, Azerbaijan, was stressed." Concerns about the preservation of cultural sites in Nagorno-Karabakh are made all the more urgent by the Azerbaijani government’s history of systemically destroying indigenous Armenian heritage—acts of both warfare and historical revisionism. The Azerbaijani government has secretly destroyed a striking number of cultural and religious artifacts in the late 20th century. Within Nakhichevan alone, a historically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani forces destroyed at least 89 medieval churches, 5,840 khachkars (Armenian cross stones) and 22,000 historical tombstones between 1997 and 2006. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |