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  • Eurovision Org Committee led by Baku and removed Armenian monument

    Eurovision Organizational Committee led by Baku and removed Armenian
    monument from Armenia's video reel
    16.05.2009 18:03 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ministry of Foreign Affaires of Armenia called on to
    return the monument, which is a pattern of the Armenian cultural
    heritage.
    Azerbaijan, yielding no opportunity of anti-Armenian propaganda and
    sometimes carrying to the point of absurdity, distinguished during the
    Eurovision-2009 pop music contest. This time the Azeri part did not
    like the image of the monument We and our Mountains pictured in the
    video reel, beforehand the performance of Inga and Anush Arshakyan,
    who represented Armenia in the contest.
    Baku officially required from the Eurovision committee, Russia's
    foreign ministry and the First Channel to remove the image of Armenian
    monument `We and our Mountains' from the video reel, stating that `the
    monument is located in Nagorno Karabakh, and Nagorno Karabakh is
    Azerbaijan's territory'. Organizers of the contest fulfilled that
    requirement and removed the image of the monument from the video reel.
    As Diana Mnatsakanyan, advisor to chief executive of Armenian Public
    Television, told to a PanARMENIAN.Net, in this connection the ministry
    of foreign affairs of Armenia addressed to Russia's foreign ministry a
    letter, calling on the organizational committee of Eurovision-2009 to
    return the monument. The work of the Armenian sculptor Sargis
    Baghdasaryan, who was a national artist of the Armenian SSR, is a
    vivid pattern of the Armenian cultural heritage
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