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Azerbaijani media have spread next misinformation about alleged adoption of a pro-Azerbaijani document in PACE.

Rafael Huseynli, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Culture of the Azerbaijani parliament, told Salamnews that the meeting of the Sub-Committee on the Cultural Heritage of PACE Committee on Culture, Science and Education discussed a document prepared by Azerbaijani MPs, titled “The Necessity of International Control over Cultural Monuments of European and Global Importance in the Occupied Azerbaijani Lands.” According to him, “most subcommittee members supported that idea and signed the declaration.”

However, PACE official site gives no information on adoption of such a declaration which means that the declaration is unofficial and has no force.

We will remind that in a bid to mislead the Azerbaijani society, Azerbaijani MPs in PACE often make cunning tricks: they prepare a “written declaration,” not an official document, signed by Azerbaijani and Turkish MPs only, and later represent it as Azerbaijani diplomacy’s “great win.” It is no mere chance that Rafael Huseynli does not name the MPs who have supported the Azerbaijani declaration.

Moreover, “international control over cultural monuments” is not possible, because even monuments included in UNESCO lists do not imply control, management or sovereignty by some international institute, that is such “declarations” do not influence the state conduct of the subject to whom that statement concerns (in this case, Artsakh).

An analogous attempt to spread Azerbaijani misinformation was prevented this October.