Azerbaijan, Baku, 23 July/ Trend , corr E. Babayev/ The Armenians have destroyed about 800 mosques in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. "It is terrible. This is barbarism, Rabiyat Aslanova, chairman of the standing parliament commission on human rights of Azerbaijan said in Baku on 23 July during the meeting with the delegation of Museum of Tolerance of Los-Angeles led by Abraham Cooper.
According to Aslanova, the Armenians have destroyed the Azerbaijani cemeteries as well. "However, the Armenian churches in Azerbaijan are still protected. We, unlike Armenians, are not barbarians," Aslanova said and added that once Armenians lived in Azerbaijan under same conditions with the other confessions. "Armenians misused the tolerance in Azerbaijan for their own purposes. The current state of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a result of the Armenian chauvinism," Aslanova said and added that in spite of all of these, Azerbaijan is willing to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by peaceful means.
Cooper said that many nations and countries all over the world do not have comprehensive information about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "When I heard in Baku about the destroyed mosques, I was terrified," the guest said and he also invited the Azerbaijani delegation to US. According to Cooper, during the visit certain meetings may be held to inform the world of the truth about Nagorno-Karabakh. "We are interested in this visit," he said.
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