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MORE AND MORE POWS: WHAT IT IS - DEFECTION OR CAPTURE - DEFIES DEFINITION
by R. Orujev
Translated by A. Ignatkin
Source: Ekho (Baku), July 4, 2007, EV
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
July 6, 2007 Friday
Armenia And Azerbaijan Are No Closer To Resolving The Matter Of
Prisoners' Return
Baku and Yerevan are unable to solve the problem of prisoners.
Contrary to all expectations, Armenia and Azerbaijan seem unable to
settle the matter of returning prisoners of war. As a matter of fact,
until very recently media outlets and general public in both countries
were mostly concerned over Samir Mamedov (an Azerbaijani serviceman
taken prisoner on December 24, 2006) kept in Yerevan, but the list
of prisoners grew longer a short while ago.
Valery Suleimanjan, 48, lost his bearings in the Martuni direction
of the Armenian-Azerbaijan front-line and was taken prisoner on April
18. Suleimanjan has a wife and children in Martuni. Arif Babayev of the
PR Department of the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry said that
"Suleimanjan does not want to go back. He asked to be turned over to
another country."
Another citizen of Azerbaijan was taken prisoner near Agdam on June
30. Panarmenian news agency quotes Armenian military personnel as
saying that the man carried no papers. The Nagorno-Karabakh State
Commission for POWs and Missing Persons informed offices of the OSCE
and Red Cross International Committee accredited in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gyulnaz Guliyeva of the Azerbaijan office of the Red Cross
International Committee said, "Our office in Nagorno-Karabakh was
informed of the arrest of a civilian from Azerbaijan on July 2."
by R. Orujev
Translated by A. Ignatkin
Source: Ekho (Baku), July 4, 2007, EV
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
July 6, 2007 Friday
Armenia And Azerbaijan Are No Closer To Resolving The Matter Of
Prisoners' Return
Baku and Yerevan are unable to solve the problem of prisoners.
Contrary to all expectations, Armenia and Azerbaijan seem unable to
settle the matter of returning prisoners of war. As a matter of fact,
until very recently media outlets and general public in both countries
were mostly concerned over Samir Mamedov (an Azerbaijani serviceman
taken prisoner on December 24, 2006) kept in Yerevan, but the list
of prisoners grew longer a short while ago.
Valery Suleimanjan, 48, lost his bearings in the Martuni direction
of the Armenian-Azerbaijan front-line and was taken prisoner on April
18. Suleimanjan has a wife and children in Martuni. Arif Babayev of the
PR Department of the Azerbaijani National Security Ministry said that
"Suleimanjan does not want to go back. He asked to be turned over to
another country."
Another citizen of Azerbaijan was taken prisoner near Agdam on June
30. Panarmenian news agency quotes Armenian military personnel as
saying that the man carried no papers. The Nagorno-Karabakh State
Commission for POWs and Missing Persons informed offices of the OSCE
and Red Cross International Committee accredited in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gyulnaz Guliyeva of the Azerbaijan office of the Red Cross
International Committee said, "Our office in Nagorno-Karabakh was
informed of the arrest of a civilian from Azerbaijan on July 2."