Armenian Parlaiment Vice-Speaker: Destruction of Jugha Cross Stones unmasks the real face of Azerbaijan
A delegation of the Armenian National Assembly led by NA Vice-President Eduard Sharmazanov is in Japan on a working visit. On the sidelines of the visit, the delegation participated on Sunday in the closing ceremony of the Armenian Cultural Week event in Tokyo. The delegation was accompanied by Armenia’s Ambassador to Japan Hrant Poghosyan. Eduard Sharmazanov made a speech at the event, saying, “We would like to express our special satisfaction with the fact that the Armenian Cultural Week event, an unprecedented positive step in the development of Armenian-Japanese cultural ties, was held in Tokyo [from May 19 to 24] within the framework of the Armenian Genocide Centennial. “ I should note with regret that we, Armenians, as bearers of millennia-old cultural heritage, even in the 21st century witness the destruction of the Armenian millennia-old cultural heritage by the barbarians, which is not simply possible to call other way, than cultural genocide. The vivid evidence of this is the destruction of the cemetery with centuries-old thousands of unique cross stones of Jugha in Nakhijevan, which was resided by the Armenians before and afterwards they were depopulated. It reveals the real face of Azerbaijan, as well as the destruction of dozens of Armenian monuments in the territory of present Turkey and the explosion of the Deir ez-Zor Surb Nahatakats/Saint Martyrs’ Armenian Church by the terrorists several months ago. We should bring together our efforts for completely excluding such atrocities in future.”
