The European Parliament is holding Thursday a debate on the destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh.

A vote on the adoption of the resolution is expected at the end of the meeting.

The draft resolution expresses deep concern about the narrative spread by Azerbaijan, in which Armenian cultural heritage sites are presented as having Albanian origin, and Armenian monuments are renamed as Caucasian-Albanian.

The creation of a new working group in Azerbaijan, which is tasked with erasing inscriptions from religious or historical monuments in the part of Nagorno-Karabakh under its control, is condemned as an unlawful plunder of the cultural heritage of neighboring peoples in order to deprive them of their historical memory.

This decision violates the spirit of the judgments of the International Court of Justice of December 7, 2021, the document says.

The document also expresses concern over the renewed clashes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which resulted in human casualties, and calls on the parties to refrain from the use of force and continue the recently launched political dialogue.