YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The story "Heavenly Walnut" in Russian by Bakur Karapetian, Chairman of the Shushi Foundation, writer and publicist, was recently published in Moscow. The writer presents the Artsakh war, relations between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, trying to show that the two peoples can live peacefully side by side. During the December 20 presentation of the book in Yerevan, the author said that although this story was written for schoolchildren, adults will also benefit from its reading so that they will correctly bring up their children. "Today Azerbaijani children have a deep hatred against Armenians, and sowing such intolerant and hostile moods does not bode well for these children and the future of their country," the writer noted. In his words, the fates of the two peoples depend on the education abd upbringing of their children, on whether they will be able to keep pace with rapid development of the human civilization. B. Karapetian said that in the 1990s he sent an open letter to the Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev, in which he wrote that after the displacement of the Armenian population of the North Artsakh in 1988-1991, the Armenian khachkars, gravestones, churches and monasteries of the historic Artsakh are destroyed with permission of the Azerbaijani authorities. "These values are considered as universal cultural heritage, so I asked Heydar Aliyev to forvid any vandalism to them," the writer said. B. Karapetian informed those present that he intends to apply to the current president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev with an open letter. Besides, he wants to create a website to include works of Armenian and Azerbaijani writers.

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