Chairman of the Parliament of Moldova Igor Grosu and the delegation he leads travelled to the de-occupied towns of Fuzuli and Shusha in the company of Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis Adil Aliyev, Head of the Azerbaijan-Moldova Inter-Parliamentary Connexions Working Group Sabir Hajiyev and other officials on 23 February.

The delegation were shown around the devastation caused by Armenians in Fuzuli, the monuments of religion and history they had razed to the ground, but also the progress of the restoration and rebuilding work that the Azerbaijani State had initiated there after the whole province’s liberation. They were also told about the current projects in those parts.

After Fuzuli, the Moldovan delegation moved up to Shusha. First, they were shown the Shusha castle walls. The stronghold erected by the ruler of Garabagh Panahali Khan had protected the town from foreign intrusions for long years and become a symbol of its impregnability. The walls of the fortress had been vandalised by Armenians during the occupation but the restoration of the citadel began once Shusha was free again.

The Moldovan guests saw the Yukhari Govkharaga and Ashaghi Govkharaga mosques, wend down to the Chidir Plain and visited the mausoleum of Molla Panah Vaghif. They were told that, just like the other historical artefacts of ours, those buildings, too, had been subjected by the Armenian vandalism but that the Azerbaijani State had restored them all completely already.

The visit of the Moldovan parliamentarians to Shusha was capped with the tour of the home museum of the People’s Artist of Azerbaijan Bulbul in that town. They learned the history and activities of the museum.

This is all there was to the travel of the Moldovan parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Igor Grosu to Fuzuli and Shusha.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis