Any destruction of cultural monuments is vandalism. The Armenian cemetery in Old Julfa is the legacy of the humankind and actions of the Azeri authorities cannot be justified, professor Mikhail Meyer, the Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University stated in Yerevan at a meeting in the South Caucasian branch of the Caucasus Democracy Institute development foundation. He stated it when commenting at the instance of a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter on the fact of Azerbaijan trying to destroy traces of Armenians' residence in the territory of current Azerbaijan. In his words, history cannot be revised. «I am not very well familiar with the details, however I am sure there is historical evidence, manuscripts, confirming the fact that Armenians have always lived in Nakhichevan,» Mikhail Meyer said.