In the course of his meeting with Czech Senate Vice-President Miluse Horska, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov strongly condemned the destruction of the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Memorial in Der Zor, Syria. Sharmazanov is sure that if the world community timely condemned the destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage in Azerbaijan and Turkey, the terror act in Der Zor could be prevented.
According to the Armenian National Assembly press-service, Eduard Sharmazanov qualified the incident as a display of cultural genocide of not only Armenians, but also the entire Christian world.
He said the explosion of the church is a logical continuation of the destruction of historical cemetery in Old Jugha (Nakhijevan), and thousands of Armenian cultural monuments in Turkey.