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  • BAKU: No Country Agrees To Accept Armenian POWs In Azerbaijan

    NO COUNTRY AGREES TO ACCEPT ARMENIAN POWS IN AZERBAIJAN

    Trend
    Oct 3 2011
    Azerbaijan

    The Armenian POWs and five civilians, members of one family, have not
    agreed to return to Armenia since the first day of their capture and
    expressed a desire to be transferred to a third country, a competent
    source told Trend on Monday.

    The captives' appeals were submitted to the UN High Commissioner for
    Refugees, the source said.

    Although an appeal was sent to several countries to accept Armenian
    citizens in captivity, these countries refused, but work is still
    being conducted in this direction, the source said.

    At present, three Armenian soldiers and five civilian family members
    are being kept in captivity in Azerbaijan.

    Previously, Azerbaijan transferred three Armenian soldiers to another
    country at their behest.

    Armenia transferred Azerbaijani POW Roman Huseynov to a third country
    in late September.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
    are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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