Wednesday, April 28 2021 10:26

ArmInfo.On April 25, the Azerbaijani side did not allow 25 Armenian pilgrims to visit the  Dadivank Monastery, where the ordination ceremony of the ministers of  the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church was to take  place. This was announced by the Artsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan  on his Facebook page.

At the same time, he stressed that by preventing the entrance of  believers to Dadivank under deliberately false and groundless  pretexts, the Azerbaijani military sought to fail an important  spiritual rite of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

"Thus, the Azerbaijani side violated the agreement reached through  the mediation of Russian peacekeepers, according to which believers  can enter and perform rites in the Dadivank monastery.

Religious rights and freedoms are enshrined in the Universal  Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international  documents, the violation of which is a violation of human dignity,  rights and freedoms," the Ombudsman added.

Stepanyan also stressed that Azerbaijan, which has declared itself a  country of cultural and religious diversity, ignores the world-famous  norms, insults, desecrates, destroys the cultural values of the  Armenian people in the occupied territories, purposefully erases the  Armenian script and artificially prevents Armenian believers from  accessing spiritual places.

In conclusion, he added that he will inform the relevant  international structures about this incident, calling on them to use  clear mechanisms against Azerbaijan's illegal actions.

Note that this information was also confirmed in the Mother See of  Etchmiadzin.