NKR Foreign Ministry caught Elhan Polukhov in making false statements

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov has made his successive attempt to represent Karabakh in the negative light. This time he accused Armenians of destroying of Azerbaijani cemeteries, NKR Foreign Ministry says in a comment.



"It should be noted that unlike our neighbors who are to date barbarously destroying Armenian monuments on territories under their control, from the very first days of Azeri-imposed war, NKR authorities took under their own protection all NKR-based Muslim monuments, including Azerbaijani cemeteries, as can be witnessed by several international and Azerbaijani delegations visiting Nagorno Karabakh," says the statement. "This is what Polukhov is trying to speculate. Unfortunately, such falsifications have been practiced by Azerbaijani propaganda machine for a long time. Everybody still remembers how Heydar Aliyev Fund, which is under the high patronage of the Aliyev family, attempted to represent photos taken in Kosovo as pictures depicting Khojalu events.



Polukhov's statements can be assessed as a regular attempt to cast a shadow on the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and distract international community's attention from Azeri-provoked vandalism against Armenian monuments, particularly, destruction of Narimanov cemetery in Baku under the pretext of building a highway, or the recent destruction of khachkars (cross stones) in Old Jugha, Nakhichevan, which saw no military operations.



To confirm the abovementioned, let's quote an excerpt from U.S. State Department's recent report on religious freedoms. "Animosity toward ethnic Armenians in the country forced most of them to depart between 1988 and 1990, and all Armenian churches, many of which were damaged in ethnic riots that took place more than a decade ago, remained closed."