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On February 5, the Investigative Committee Studying the Legality, Substantiation and Credibility of Financial and Other reports presented to the executive power bodies within the frameworks of the investment programmes in the sphere of metal mining convened a sitting.

At the sitting the Director of the RA NAA Archaeology and Ethnography Institute Pavel Avetisyan and the Head of Expedition Implementing Excavations in the territory of Amulsar Hakob Simonyan were invited to the sitting.

The archaeologists have informed that 480 historical-cultural values have been found on the 30.000 square metre territory of Amulsar, and 82 out of them are in the zone of Amulsar. It was noted that 46 historical-cultural values out of them were studied and presented materials on them to the Ministry of Culture. The specialists have informed that historical-cultural monuments are not found out in the annals, and because of that they are not presented to the international structures as international historical-cultural values. By now, there is no conclusion of the Specialized Committee if Amulsar damages our cultural heritage.

According to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Sergey Bagratyan, there are difficulties in terms of legal regulation. The Committee will address to the government for fixing the discovered values, giving them a status of monument in order to have an opportunity to present them to the international organizations and clarified what obligations Armenia has with respect to international conventions, Sergey Bagratyan has noted that according to a number of international conventions, as well as by the RA legislation it is banned to operate any mine, if there are historical-cultural values in that territory.