European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule answered to the written question of European Parliament deputy Lorenzo Fontana regarding dismantling of the monument of Humanity in Kars.

Fontana stressed in his question that Monument of Humanity was devoted to Armenian-Turkish friendship. However, Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it “a monstrous” and ordered to break it down, Turkish Vatan reports.

“Neither a commission or an official body could assess the esthetic value of the monument. Breaking a monument down is always a serious decision. If the problem was in its location, it could be relocated,” Stefan Fule told.

Dismantling of the monument started on April 26 and were over on June15 2011.