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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Oskanian Called Destruction of Armenian Cemetery in Nakhichevan

    20.05.2006 14:34 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ When addressing the 116th session of the Council of
    Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Armenian Minister of
    Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanian addressed the issue of destruction of
    Armenian khachkars in Nakhichevan. "I can only wish that the ideas and
    ideals of Europe came automatically with membership. Perhaps then I
    would not be here today to mourn the irreversible, irrational,
    intentional destruction of a medieval Armenian cemetery on the
    territory of Azerbaijan,' he said.

    The Minister emphasized, `Thousands of massive, uniqueArmenian
    khachkars - stone sculptures which had survived through - centuries
    are no longer there. A cemetery has been wiped out and the hillside
    has been turned into a shooting range. This barbarism is a blatant
    attempt to wipe out traces of Armenian presence on those lands,"
    Oskanian said, reports the Press Service of the Armenian MFA.
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