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    International rights group criticizes Azeri body for POWs - Armenian agency

    Mediamax news agency
    31 May 04

    Yerevan, 31 May: The Azerbaijani state commission for POWs, hostages
    and missing persons is engaged more in propaganda rather than search.

    The press service of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR] Foreign
    Ministry has told Mediamax news agency that the co-chairmen of the
    International working group for the release of POWs and hostages and
    for the tracing of missing persons, Svetlana Gannushkina and Bernhard
    Clasen, said this at a meeting with the NKR foreign minister, Ashot
    Gulyan, in Stepanakert [Xankandi] today.

    The co-chairmen of the International working group also said that
    humanitarian problems could not be politicized. At the same time,
    they noted that it was important to continue the activities of the
    International working group.

    Ashot Gulyan, for his part, expressed the hope that the experience
    accumulated by the International working group would help it resolve
    the problems facing it, which are also a cause of concern for all
    the sides to the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. The minister noted
    that the fact that Azerbaijan excessively politicized the issue
    of missing persons and POWs and laid false claims to Armenia and
    Nagornyy Karabakh significantly hindered the search work and created
    an atmosphere of distrust. Ashot Gulyan said that a clear-cut position
    of the International working group in this regard could help prevent
    the Azerbaijani side from taking such steps.
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