The monumentwatch.org website monitored the monument in Artsakh's cultural heritage writes:
"It simply came to our notice then that the Azerbaijani side had damaged the tabernacle of Tsitsernavank. The photos show that the sacred table and the criminal in the tabernacle were broken.
It should be noted that in 2023 he was defiled and damaged Tsitsernavank Temple.
The Temple of Tsitsernavank has been in December 2020, when the Kashatagh region of the Artsakh Republic passed under Azerbaijani control, became one of the propaganda targets of the Aghvadzan-Udi-Ukrainian community of Azerbaijan. Despite all this, the temple is regularly desecrated.
Our reaction
Continuing damage to Tsitsernavank speaks of the fact of being premeditated. The 2582th resolution "On the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh", which had adopted an exclusion of any intervention in the territories of the Armenian heritage, to protect the principles of itself inheritance, and the restoration works solely in accordance with the principle.
The desecration of the church also violates the criterion of the cultural importance of Heritage, approved by the Burtra (Australia, Ikomos). by a charter.
THERE WILL RECEIVE THAT HEALTH PROTECTION OF HISTORICAL PROPERTIES OF HISTORICAL PROPERTIES OF HISTORICAL PROGRAMS With the loss of this or that element of cultural importance, historical, aesthetic, spiritual and social aspects, deprives the inheritance of his own rational significance, destroying it. "
The desecration and damage to the church undermine the integrity of the structure. And as it has been confirmed during the 36th UNESCO expertise meeting "Integrity is the ability of heritage to provide and maintain the importance of the importance over time."
According to the principle of integrity, maintaining the protection of the elements transferring the values of inheritance, at the same time taking into account both individual elements and the relationship between them and the whole.
Referring to the harmful human influence, the operating guide gives an additional explanation. "All the features of the inheritance must be unchanged for the protection of integrity."
