About a hundred Armenians from Montreal, Laval, Toronto, Cambridge and Ottawa were present at a demonstration on February 24 in Ottawa, Canada, to protest against the criminal anti-Armenian policies of Azerbaijan. The event was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s (ARF) Canada Youth Organization and the Armen Karo Student Organization. In the morning the protestors gathered outside the UNESCO office demanding that the UNESCO interfere and condemn the barbaric destruction ofArmenian khachkars in Julfa, Nakhichevan. “We expect that such crimes perpetrated by Azerbaijan against the Armenian cultural heritage should be condemned. This heritage belongs to not only the Armenian people, but the entire mankind. Time has come for the UNESCO to take steps against it,” event participants said in their speeches. Later, the demonstrators handed a memorandum to the UNESCO headquarters and then went to the Azerbaijani Embassy. Raffi Sargisian and Harut Bekarian spoke here. The protesters tried to submit a memorandum but the Azerbaijani Embassy employees did not contact them. The memorandum was handed to the police officers, who took it to the Embassy, reported the Yerkir.
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