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    ARMENIA SEEKS INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF ALLEGED AZERBAIJANI DESTRUCTION OF MONUMENTS

    International Herald Tribune, France
    The Associated Press
    Dec 19 2006

    YEREVAN, Armenia: The Armenian government has launched a traveling
    photo exhibition of what it claims is destruction of monuments at an
    ethnic Armenian cemetery in the Azerbaijani region of Nakhichevan.

    "The Armenian side intends to get international condemnation of the
    destruction," Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said Tuesday.

    The monuments in question are intricate stone-carved crosses in the
    cemetery at Jugha - alternately known as Djulfe - in Nakhichevan,
    an exclave wedged between Armenia and Iran and Turkey.

    Armenia claims Azerbaijani soldiers have systematically destroyed the
    crosses. Photos aimed at supporting the claim are currently being
    shown in Strasbourg, France, and will be moved to a new city every
    two months.

    Azeribajani officials earlier this year denied a report that the
    cemetery had vanished.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan remain strongly at odds over the final status
    of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that has been under the
    control of Armenian and ethnic Armenian Karabakh forces since the
    1994 end of a separatist war.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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