Western Azerbaijan Community’s letter to UNESCO Director-General circulated as UN official document

The United Nations Secretariat has circulated a letter from the Western Azerbaijan Community to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay as an official document of the UN Security Council, General Assembly, and Economic and Social Council.

The letter signed by the leadership of the Community, intellectuals of Western Azerbaijan, artists, poets, and writers has been distributed in all official UN languages (English, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish) in line with the agenda of the aforementioned UN main bodies on prevention of armed conflicts, peacebuilding, protection of refugees' rights, elimination of racial discrimination, promotion of human rights, prevention of genocide, as well as issues of international humanitarian law.

Ulviyya Zulfigar, the Community spokesperson told Caliber.Az that the distribution of the letter as an official UN document is an important step for putting the issue of our destroyed cultural heritage in Western Azerbaijan on the international agenda.

It is worth noting that in the aforementioned letter members of the Community, expressing deep concern over the destruction of Azerbaijani cultural heritage in the territory of Armenia, reiterating previous appeals of the Azerbaijani public to UNESCO, once again asked to send a mission to monitor the state of Azerbaijani cultural heritage in Armenia. This is the third official document of the Community circulated at the UN.