CULTURAL GENOCIDE PRECEDES ALL PHYSICAL PRESSURE – ARMENIAN EXPERT
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February 26, 2013 | 13:04
YEREVAN. – All physical pressure is preceded by cultural genocide,
Chairman Ashot Grigoryan of the Forum of Armenian Associations of
Europe stated during a press conference on Tuesday.
“We continue our fight for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
and we also are fighting at UNESCO, in the matter of destruction
of the cross-stones of the [Armenian] cemetery of Old Jugha [Julfa,
in Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan].
“Azerbaijan paid $1.5 million to UNESCO, and we will [launch a] protest
to Director-General Irina Bokova of this organization,” Grigoryan said.
The expert also stressed that they issued a letter to UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with a request to set up a UNESCO
commission and, within the scope of whose activities, the Azerbaijanis’
destruction of 10,000 Armenian cross-stone-monuments is aimed to
be recognized.
“The British Museum is another matter. Armenian exhibits are displayed
there, [but] with the inscription: ‘Ancient Turkey,'” Ashot Grigoryan
noted.
From: A. Papazian
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