YEREVAN. – Armenian monuments have been leveled to the ground in Nakhchivan, director of ICOMOS Armenia branch told reporters.

Gagik Gyurdjyan said they had failed to establish any contacts with Azerbaijani experts, as the country has not been an ICOMOS member since 2003.

“During the Karabakh war, Azerbaijan destroyed many Armenian churches and turned them into mosques. Meanwhile, Armenia has not touched any mosque in Karabakh,” he said.

The contacts with Turkish side through ICOMOS are preserved, and it is more important, taking into account the lack of diplomatic relations between the states. This helps Armenian experts get acquainted wiith the renovation projects of Armenian churches in Turkey or raise the question of state of churches.