AZERBAIJAN HANDS OVER CAPTURED SOLDIER TO ARMENIA
Trend News Agency
Jan 25 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 25 January / Òrend corr K. Zarbaliyeva / Azerbaijan
has handed over the captured Armenian soldier to his country on 25
January, the Baku office of the International Red Cross Committee
informed Trend.
Armenian soldier Ambartsum Asatrian had been in captivity in Azerbaijan
since 4 August 2007.
The soldier was handed over to Armenia at 1.00 pm local time at border
in the Ijevan-Gazakh region.
Previously, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry, as well as the
Azerbaijani State Commission on POWs, Missing Persons and Hostages
had reported that Asatrian did not want to return to Armenia and
requested asylum in other country.
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Trend News Agency
Jan 25 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 25 January / Òrend corr K. Zarbaliyeva / Azerbaijan
has handed over the captured Armenian soldier to his country on 25
January, the Baku office of the International Red Cross Committee
informed Trend.
Armenian soldier Ambartsum Asatrian had been in captivity in Azerbaijan
since 4 August 2007.
The soldier was handed over to Armenia at 1.00 pm local time at border
in the Ijevan-Gazakh region.
Previously, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry, as well as the
Azerbaijani State Commission on POWs, Missing Persons and Hostages
had reported that Asatrian did not want to return to Armenia and
requested asylum in other country.
--Boundary_(ID_O8JDmzwJfrGV+6pt7kjoJw)--