The monitoring results conducted by the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan show that 95 percent of 706 state-registered historical and cultural monuments in the liberated territories have been destroyed, the Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan Anar Kerimov said in an interview with the Turkish Anadolu agency, Trend reports.

Many cultural and historical monuments in Azerbaijan have been razed to the ground as a result of the Armenian occupation.

An international fact-finding mission is visiting Azerbaijan to study the facts of Armenian vandalism committed in Azerbaijani territories liberated from occupation in the last year's war, Human Rights Commissioner Sabina Aliyeva told local media on September 15.

Representatives of the Interdepartmental Center under the Coordination Headquarters that oversees restoration work in Azerbaijan’s liberated lands, visited Aghdam on July 29.

Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmat Hajiyev has stated about another example of Armenian vandalism in Aghdam region liberated from the Armenian occupation in a 44-day war in autumn 2020.

Milikh Yevdayev, Head of the Mountain Jews Community of Azerbaijan, who is on a visit to Azerbaijan Aghdam district, previously liberated from Armenian occupation, has spoken on vandalism by Armenians in the district, Trend reports.

Presidential aide Hikmat Hajiyev has said that Armenia has no moral rights to put any claims against Azerbaijan after its inconceivable vandalism against the latter's heritage and property.

There were 8,000 historical and cultural monuments on ancient Azerbaijani lands, where Armenia is now located, Faig Ismayilov, an expert and researcher on cultural values, professor of the Moscow branch of the International Academy of Architects, member of the board of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan, told Trend.

Armenia committed an act of vandalism in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and seven adjacent districts during the period of occupation, Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Structures, Mubariz Gurbanli said, Trend reports.

Foreign diplomats accredited in Azerbaijan - ambassadors, military attachés, and heads of representations of international organizations - visited the country’ liberated Jabrayil and Zangilan districts on February 6 to witness destruction caused by around three decades of Armenian occupation.