Pan-Armenian Union strongly condemns  actions of Patriarch of Moscow  and All Rus` in Baku

ArmInfo. The Pan-Armenian Union "Gardman-Shirvan- Nakhichevan" strongly condemns the actions of the  Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', which do not correspond to his calling, as noted in the statement issued by the Union.

It recalls that the Patriarch recently visited Baku and met with the  President of Azerbaijan and his wife.  The authors note that one of  the foundations of Azerbaijani nationalism, both today and in the  past, continues to be religious discrimination, which was and is  expressed in the overt or covert oppression of Christian minorities  and the periodic destruction of Christian heritage. During his visit  to Baku, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' had to raise his voice  in protest against the state policy of open intolerance towards  Christian values. The document highlights that the President of  Azerbaijan and his wife are the living embodiment of the systematic  propaganda of ethnic hatred against Armenians and the state program  to destroy Armenians, support for which is tantamount to complicity  in a crime, and "encouraging" the crime further aggravates the sin of  disrespect for Christian values and reprehensible indifference to the  peoples of the same faith. 

"The family of the President of Azerbaijan is not only the direct  heir of the regimes that committed genocide in historical Shirvan and  Nakhichevan, subjecting the local indigenous Armenian population to  periodic ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, but also  continuously destroying the Armenian national-spiritual cultural  heritage, which is nothing more than a deliberate and targeted  erasure of historical memory and arbitrary distortion of the  realities of the past. We call on Patriarch Kirill to be vigilant in  relation to the undeniable fact of the destruction of the Armenian  Christian heritage by Azerbaijan. Instead of encouraging these  actions, practical steps should be taken to prevent the crimes being  committed. Punishment and accountability for them must be demanded,"  the Union emphasizes.