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State Commission: Azerbaijan hands over eight servicemen to Armenia

07.02.2022 [17:14]
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State Commission: Azerbaijan hands over eight servicemen to Armenia

Baku, February 7, AZERTAC

Guided by the principles of humanity, the Republic of Azerbaijan has handed over eight servicemen to Armenia. Some of them were detained during the interception of a provocation by Armenian armed forces on Kalbajar direction of the state border on November 16, 2021, the State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons said.

The Azerbaijani State Commission emphasized that in response to this humanitarian move, Armenia "should hand over to Baku information on Azerbaijani servicemen and civilians killed during the first Armenian-Azerbaijani war and presumably buried in mass graves as well as on the locations of such graves”.

This issue was raised by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the video conference held on February 4 on the initiative of the President of the French Republic with the participation of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of France as Chair of the European Union Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Council Charles Michel and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

"The Armenian side assumed the responsibility of cooperating on this issue," the State Commission added.

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