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    STATEMENT OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC STATE COMMISSION ON PRISONERS OF WAR, MISSING PERSONS, AND HOSTAGES

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
    2010-02-25 11:50

    To get doubtful propagandistic dividends, the Azerbaijani authorities
    keep cashing in on the humanitarian issues of prisoners of war,
    manipulating impudently Armenian citizens in the Azerbaijani prisons.

    The last more than obvious sample of this is the video-reel promoted at
    the Azerbaijani websites, where the personages assert "the unbearable
    conditions in the Armenian army and comfortable life in Azerbaijan".

    Surely, even those in Azerbaijan realize that similar "revelations"
    are the results of the local special services' activity and quite a
    clumsy attempt to lay the blame at somebody else's door.

    However, we cannot but worry about another side of this fact.

    Manipulating cynically the Armenian prisoners of war and actually
    making a laughingstock of them, the Azerbaijani authorities violate
    the principles of international humanitarian law, in particular,
    the Geneva Conventions providing certain rules of treatment of this
    category of persons.

    In this regard, we consider it suitable to remind that during the
    Karabakh war the Azerbaijani party violated regularly the Geneva
    Conventions canons, in particular, refusing to provide the NKR with
    corresponding information about the prisoners, creating unbearable
    conditions for the prisoners of war and hostages, exposing them to
    mockeries and tortures, as a result of which the majority of them
    deceased.

    At the same time, already in the spring of 1992, the Nagorno Karabakh
    Republic stated their full acknowledgement of the additional protocols
    to the Geneva Conventions and unconditional implementation of their
    provisions. The unconditional observance of the Geneva Conventions by
    the NKR authorities was repeatedly confirmed by international human
    rights and humanitarian organizations, including the International
    Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

    Considering the abovementioned, the NKR State Commission on
    Prisoners of War, Missing Persons, and Hostages condemns strongly
    the politicization of the purely humanitarian issue of prisoners of
    war and hostages by official Baku.

    At the same time, we call on the international structures concerned,
    and first of all the ICRC, to react correspondingly to similar actions
    of the Azerbaijani party and recommend it strongly to respect the
    fundamental human rights.
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