YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia has become a UNESCO member in 1995, and two Armenian medieval great monuments, the Sanahin monastic complex, Haghpat monastery as well as the Sanahin bridge were already in 1996 involved in the list of the World Cultural Heritage of that international authoritative organization. Gagik Gyurjian, the RA Deputy Minister of Culture and Youth Issues stated about it in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent. In his words, 7 Armenian historic-cultural monuments are under the patronage of that powerful structure at present. The Geghardavank with its whole natural landscape was involved in the UNESCO World Heritage register in 2000. The Holy Etchmiadzin Cathedral and the city of Etchmiadzin with its churches were also involved in 2002. Later, the Zvartnots temple was added to the group of those monuments. G. Gyurjian also stated that the UNESCO experts and Armenian specialists study at the moment other 10 Armenian monuments. "The next to be involved in that list is Noravank. Members of the UNESCO Committee arrived in Armenia recently visited Noravank but the registration was delayed for some unevennesses," the Deputy Minister stated. G. Gyurjian also mentioned that joining the UNESCO, Armenia joined all conventions of that structure, undertook obligations of keeping and protection of cultural values. In his words, security of keeping other peoples' historic-cultural monuments is characteristic among them. "In this sense our country presented the Persian Blue mosque in Yerevan to the UNESCO Committe. This cultural monument will also be presented to the UNESCO Committee in future for being involved in the world heritage register," G. Gyurjian emphasized. In the Deputy Minister's words, the Iran population also did a similar interesting and model work: they presented that international organization the Surb (Saint) Tade monastery situated in the territory of Iran, which, by the way, was restored by their financial resources.

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