350 INTELLECTUALS URGE PRESIDENT, CATHOLICOS, TO HALT GANDZASAR MONASTERY RESURFACING
On June 21, 350 “intellectuals” (architects, historians,
archaeologists, ‘meritorious artists’, musicologists, actors,
composers, painters, poets….) signed a letter addressed to Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan and Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II,
calling on them to immediately halt the on-again, off-again resurfacing
of the Gandzasar Monestary complex in Artsakh.
They call on President Sargsyan and Catholicos Garegin II to invite a
team of specialists (seismologists, geo-physicists and archaeologists)
that will organize the removal of the polished stones that have been
attached to complex and restore the monastery to its original and
unadulterated form.
The list of “intellectuals”, in Armenian, can be accessed here.
From: A. Papazian
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