News - Azerbaijan forces UNESCO to scrap Nagorno-Karabakh visit

Azerbaijani authorities have forced UNESCO to cancel its visit to Nagorno-Karabakh. “Information has been spread that UNESCO has rejected the route proposed by Azerbaijan for a visit to Garabagh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)]. The information says that UNESCO applied for a visit to the Garabagh region of Azerbaijan. At the same time, it was said that the official Baku agreed with the proposal of the fact-finding mission of UNESCO to go to Khankandi [(Stepanakert)] by passing through Aghdam in order to document the destruction in Aghdam during the Armenian occupation. It was also noted that UNESCO refused this proposal and expressed its desire to go to that city only to assess the condition of the monuments in Khankandi, APA reports. "However, it turned out that the real truth was not like that at all. UNESCO told the Azerbaijani side that the mission would inspect only two monuments in the territories freed from occupation, and after that, would immediately go to the city of Khankandi. Azerbaijan stood against it. The Azerbaijani side called the visit of the UNESCO mission to the region under these conditions insincere and opaque. Thus, Azerbaijan rejected UNESCO's condition," added the aforesaid Azerbaijani news agency. Thus, Azerbaijan, which for 30 years prevented UNESCO's visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, continues the same policy. The Azerbaijani authorities force this organization to make a choice: either to promote the Azerbaijani position or to scrap the visit.