NKR HANDS TRESPASSER ANAR MAMEDOV OVER TO AZERBAIJANI SIDE
STEPANAKERT, August 16 (Noyan Tapan). On August 13, at 2:00 pm local
time, the NKR State Commission for Prisoners of War and Missing
Persons handed over to the Azerbaijani side Anar Misha Oghli Mamedov,
a serviceman from Baku, born in 1983, at the contact line between the
Nagorno Karabakh and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the direction of
Aghdam. According to the Commission, A. Mamedov was captured by the
NKR Defense Army militaries on August 6, 2004, when passing a line of
demarcation at the north-eastern sector of the NKR frontier.
The Commission informed about the incident the representatives of the
International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and the OSCE officials
accredited in Stepanakert. The handing over of A. Mamediv was carried
out by the decision of the NKR authorities through the mediation of
the Nagorno Karabakh Office of the International Committee of Red
Cross after obtaining the Azerbaijani side's permission to accept its
serviceman. During his captivity in the NKR, A. Mamedov was regularly
visited by the ICRC representatives who were given the right to see
the Azeri serviceman freely.
STEPANAKERT, August 16 (Noyan Tapan). On August 13, at 2:00 pm local
time, the NKR State Commission for Prisoners of War and Missing
Persons handed over to the Azerbaijani side Anar Misha Oghli Mamedov,
a serviceman from Baku, born in 1983, at the contact line between the
Nagorno Karabakh and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the direction of
Aghdam. According to the Commission, A. Mamedov was captured by the
NKR Defense Army militaries on August 6, 2004, when passing a line of
demarcation at the north-eastern sector of the NKR frontier.
The Commission informed about the incident the representatives of the
International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and the OSCE officials
accredited in Stepanakert. The handing over of A. Mamediv was carried
out by the decision of the NKR authorities through the mediation of
the Nagorno Karabakh Office of the International Committee of Red
Cross after obtaining the Azerbaijani side's permission to accept its
serviceman. During his captivity in the NKR, A. Mamedov was regularly
visited by the ICRC representatives who were given the right to see
the Azeri serviceman freely.