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Baku/14.06.22/Turan: The "cartographers case" trial was resumed in Tbilisi city court.
Georgian cartographers Iveri Melashvili and Natalya Ilyicheva, who took part in the delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Georgian border, are accused of using maps at an incorrect scale when determining the border of the territory on which the Keshikchi Daghy (David Gareji) monastery is located.
A state expert examination in October 2020 found that the defendants were guided by maps published in the 1970s and 1980s with the boundaries reflected therein "contradicting [Georgia's] historical interests, including those of David Gareji," according to the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.
The border areas agreed upon during the demarcation before 2007 are not consistent with the map published in 1937-1938. The difference of 3.500 hectares of territory to the detriment of Georgia, announced the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.
The accused cartographers Melashvili and Ilyicheva were detained in 2020 and released on bail in 2021. The defendants pleaded not guilty. Melashvili called the criminal case absurd and politically motivated.
On June 13 three witnesses were interrogated. The Prosecutor's Office decided to question the third President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, as it could not rule out his involvement in the case.
On June 13, for the first time in six months, the process continued with the hearing of three witnesses. Two of them were under the subordination of the accused, and the third one - Zurab Gumbaridze - was the Ambassador of Georgia to Azerbaijan. According to the lawyer Eduard Marikashvili, the testimonies of these witnesses did not support the accusation. Ambassador Gumbaridze said at the trial that he took no part in the mapping exercise.
In Azerbaijan the territory where the "Keshikchi Dagh" monastery is located is declared as the historical property of the Azerbaijani people, and the monastery, according to historians in Baku, was built during the statehood of Caucasian Albania.-0-
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