Tigran Balayan: Azeri President envies exemplary relations between Armenia and Muslim countries

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
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Tigran Balayan: Azeri President envies exemplary relations between
Armenia and Muslim countries

Yerevan October 21

Tatevik Shahunyan. The President of Azerbaijan envies the exemplary
relations of Armenia with the Muslim countries, so he gives the
desired for the valid. So in his biker blog on Twitter responded the
spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Tigran Balayan
to the statement of the head of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev that "Armenia,
which destroys mosques, can never be a friend of Muslim countries."

Aliyev in Istanbul, speaking at the IX summit of the Economic
Cooperation Organization D-8, once again complained about "Armenia's
occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories," reported
"about a million Azerbaijani refugees and hundreds of victims",
demanded the unconditional implementation of a number of international
resolutions, which, according to the Azerbaijani leader, allegedly
requires the Armenian side to "liberate the occupied territories".

Further, the President of Azerbaijan again tried to attach a religious
implication to the Karabakh conflict: "Azerbaijan is seriously
fighting against one of the most serious threats in the world today -
Islamophobia." But Armenia, which tries to impersonate itself as a
friend of Muslim countries, destroyed mosques and religious monuments
in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding areas. "The country that is
destroying the mosque will never be able to become a friend of Muslim
states."

The program of restoration of the Upper Mosque Goar Aga is being
carried out within the framework of the "Development Initiatives of
Armenia" Fund (IDeA Foundation), the Government of the Republic of
Artsakh and the "Revival of the Eastern Historical Heritage"
Foundation in the city of Shushi in Artsakh. Under the program, it is
planned to completely restore the mosque, retaining its original
appearance, to equip the adjacent territory and to carry out works on
the capital strengthening of the madrassa building located next to the
mosque in order to prevent collapse of the structure. The program will
preserve this architectural monument and further use it as a cultural
and tourist center. Part of the work on the restoration of the
monument involved the Iranian architectural company Part Saman Jahan
and specialists from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Let's remind that
in 1995 the restored Blue Mosque began to operate in Yerevan - one of
the most remarkable monuments of Yerevan in the second half of the
18th century.