Armenia’s occupation policy caused USD 20-million damages to Azerbaijani library-information sphere

A booklet titled “Destroyed resources, abolished libraries” was published in Azerbaijan.

The presentation of above-mentioned booklet was held within the international conference in Baku entitled “The libraries are a revival resource of natural culture”. The booklet published by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism was written by Samir Abbasov. Scientific advisors are Latifa Mammadova, Ali Eyvazov, Mayil Ahmadov, Aybeniz Aliyeva. The publication informs about destroyed and robbed libraries in the occupied Azerbaijani territories as a result of occupation war against Azerbaijan started by Armenian armed forces in 1988.

The publication says that 547 architectural monuments, including 5 of universal, 393 of country-scale and 149 of local significant architectural monuments, 205 archaeological monuments, 927 libraries, 808 club facilities, 85 musical schools 12 monuments, 22 museums, 4 art galleries, 10 cultural and amusement parks, 4 state theatres, 2 concert facilities in the occupied Azerbaijani lands were destroyed, burnt and robbed by Armenian armed forces. At the same time, 9 centralized library systems, 927 libraries and 4.6 million books were robbed and destroyed in Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding regions. Besides, 13 historical and cultural monuments of universal (6 architectural and 7 archaeological), 292 of country-scale (119 architectural and 173 archaeological) and 330 of local significant remained in the occupation zone. According to the approximate calculations, Azerbaijani library-information sphere was damaged in amount of USD 20 815 thousand.

The booklet titled “Destroyed resources, abolished libraries” was published for the purpose of ensuring the special item of the Action Plan “State program on development of library-information sphere in Azerbaijan Republic in 2008-2013”.


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