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  • Armenia frees captured Azerbaijani soldier: Red Cross

    Agence France Presse
    August 30, 2013 Friday 4:46 PM GMT


    Armenia frees captured Azerbaijani soldier: Red Cross

    YEREVAN, Aug 30 2013

    Armenia has released a captured Azerbaijani soldier to an unnamed
    third country, the International Committee of the Red Cross said
    Friday.

    "On 30 August, the ICRC was informed by the Armenian authorities that
    the Azerbaijani prisoner of war had been released and had departed
    Armenia for a third country that very day under the auspices of the
    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees," the Red Cross said in
    a statement.

    The soldier Firuz Farajev was detained last July after he crossed the
    border between the two arch-foes, the defence ministry in Yerevan
    said.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud
    over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.

    The two sides regularly exchange fire along the volatile frontline and
    each is thought to be holding prisoners of war.

    Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan in
    a 1990s war that killed 30,000 people.

    Despite years of negotiations since a 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
    have still not signed a peace deal.

    Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force if
    negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed to
    retaliate against any military action.

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