Jan 25 2021
Armenia’s foreign minister Ara Aivazian had a phone conversation today with UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay.
MFA press service reports that the issues on preservation of Armenian religious, cultural-historic heritage in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and perspectives of cooperation with UNESCO in the mentioned direction were touched upon.
Ayvazian stated that he expects UNESCO’s active engagement in the process of protection of the Armenian heritage in the territories that passed under Azerbaijan’s control which he stressed is especially important in the conditions of the attempts of intentional annihilation of historic monuments and distortion of their identity.
Armenia’s minister also hailed UNESCO decision to send fact-finding mission to Karabakh.
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