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Feb 1 2005
OSCE SPECIAL MISSION MEMBERS PUT ON CANDLES IN ANCIENT ARMENIAN
CHURCH IN KARVACHAR
01.02.2005 17:23
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azg newspaper reports the details of yesterday's
visit of the OSCE fact-finding mission in the security belt
territories around Nagorno Karabakh. As reported by the newspaper, on
they way back in the evening the group members visited the medieval
Armenian Monastery of Dadivank, situated in the territory of
Karvachar (Kelbajar is one of the territories of the security belt),
where they put on candles. The Dadivank Monastery, where according to
the legend, relics of St. apostle Thaddeus are kept, is one of the
numerous monuments of the Christian culture, which are situated
within the territories of the security belt and preserve the memory
of the Armenian civilization, which had once prospered here and fell
into decay after these lands being inhabited by Muslim
cattle-breeding tribes. According to the newspaper correspondent's
impression, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, who were also present at
the work of the commission do not display special enthusiasm on the
mission main goal, considering that those steps will hardly bring to
the solution of the conflict.
Feb 1 2005
OSCE SPECIAL MISSION MEMBERS PUT ON CANDLES IN ANCIENT ARMENIAN
CHURCH IN KARVACHAR
01.02.2005 17:23
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azg newspaper reports the details of yesterday's
visit of the OSCE fact-finding mission in the security belt
territories around Nagorno Karabakh. As reported by the newspaper, on
they way back in the evening the group members visited the medieval
Armenian Monastery of Dadivank, situated in the territory of
Karvachar (Kelbajar is one of the territories of the security belt),
where they put on candles. The Dadivank Monastery, where according to
the legend, relics of St. apostle Thaddeus are kept, is one of the
numerous monuments of the Christian culture, which are situated
within the territories of the security belt and preserve the memory
of the Armenian civilization, which had once prospered here and fell
into decay after these lands being inhabited by Muslim
cattle-breeding tribes. According to the newspaper correspondent's
impression, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, who were also present at
the work of the commission do not display special enthusiasm on the
mission main goal, considering that those steps will hardly bring to
the solution of the conflict.