{"id":14040,"date":"2025-05-23T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsakhdiocese.am\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2025-05-23T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:43:17","slug":"haghordagrutyun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsakhdiocese.am\/en\/news\/haghordagrutyun","title":{"rendered":"Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

Response of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to the False Statements of the Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office<\/h2>\n

At a recent session of the Qadi Council held in Baku, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office, once again assumed the role of propagator of Azerbaijani disinformation, targeting the Armenian people and the Armenian Church with hatred and hostility.<\/p>\n

Surpassing even his previous fabrications, Pashazadeh declared that the centuries-old Armenian sanctuaries in Armenia and the region, including the 1,700-year-old Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, supposedly stand on \u201chistoric Azerbaijani lands,\u201d and that Armenians have allegedly \u201cappropriated\u201d these territories. He concluded his absurd assertions by portraying the Armenian Apostolic Church as a threat to the nations of the region.<\/p>\n

It is both absurd and ironic that a religious leader of a people who received the ethnonym \u201cAzerbaijani\u201d only in the late 1930s through Soviet nation-building policies now attempts to challenge the historic presence of the Armenian people\u2014a nation whose millennia-old creative, spiritual, and cultural heritage is a matter of universally acknowledged truth. <\/p>\n

Even more astonishing is the fact that such accusations of appropriation come from a representative of a state whose very name was itself adopted from another land and people.\nThis same disingenuous rhetoric underlies Pashazadeh\u2019s manipulative references to the Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan. It must be noted that the settlements near Rostov-on-Don were named \u201cNew Nakhichevan\u201d by the Russian Imperial authorities, in honor of the Armenians who were historically displaced from the Armenian region of Nakhichevan and resettled there.<\/p>\n

The repeated expressions of animosity and falsehoods in the public statements of Azerbaijan\u2019s religious leader are in themselves evidence that Azerbaijan\u2014as Pashazadeh\u2019s own words reveal\u2014is, in fact, the true threat to the countries of the region.<\/p>\n

Finally, it must once and for all be affirmed that lies and falsehoods, no matter how frequently or fervently repeated, can never become truth.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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