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ARMENIA CONFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT TO DEMANDS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
news.am
Sept 26 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN.- Armenia once again confirmed its commitment to demands
of the international humanitarian law, head of the working group at
Commission for POWs, hostages and missing persons Armen Karapetyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
As reported earlier, representatives of UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Refugees and International Organization for Migration
transported Azerbaijani POW Roman Huseynov Novruzoglu to a third
state. Armenia's Defense Ministry said he refused to return to
Azerbaijan preferring to find shelter in the third state.
No prisoners of war are left in Armenia. Meanwhile, three Armenian
POWs and five members of the Armenian family are kept in Azerbaijani
captivity.
Asked whether handing over of the Azerbaijani POW can affect fate
of the Armenian captives, Karapetyan said that the international
humanitarian law does not accept such notion as exchange or any equal
action in relation to prisoners of war.
news.am
Sept 26 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN.- Armenia once again confirmed its commitment to demands
of the international humanitarian law, head of the working group at
Commission for POWs, hostages and missing persons Armen Karapetyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
As reported earlier, representatives of UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Refugees and International Organization for Migration
transported Azerbaijani POW Roman Huseynov Novruzoglu to a third
state. Armenia's Defense Ministry said he refused to return to
Azerbaijan preferring to find shelter in the third state.
No prisoners of war are left in Armenia. Meanwhile, three Armenian
POWs and five members of the Armenian family are kept in Azerbaijani
captivity.
Asked whether handing over of the Azerbaijani POW can affect fate
of the Armenian captives, Karapetyan said that the international
humanitarian law does not accept such notion as exchange or any equal
action in relation to prisoners of war.