ANCA urges Morningstar to reject Baku=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s ban on access to Djulfa Cemetery

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has called on U.S. Ambassador to Baku, Richard Morningstar, to honor his commitment to the U.S. Senate to secure access to the site, in Djulfa, Nakhichevan, of the Azerbaijani government's 2005 video-taped destruction of a medieval Armenian cemetery housing thousands of intricately carved Armenian stone-crosses (khatchkars), reported Asbarez.

In a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Baku Monday, Ambassador Morningstar stated that, when he was recently in Nakhchivan, he "discussed at length with local authorities one such site in Julfa, where, according to evidence from credible sources, an ancient Armenian cemetery was desecrated or destroyed. I regret that the authorities, citing security reasons, made it impossible for me to visit the site and personally see what is there."  Read more... (299 words)

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