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GEORGIA NEGOTIATING WITH ARMENIA ON RETURN OF ITS ETHNIC AZERBAIJANI CITIZEN
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Aug 20 2013
20 August 2013, 13:03 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Georgia's Foreign Ministry is holding talks with Armenia on returning
a captured ethnic Azerbaijani Georgian citizen, the ministry told
the Baku-based Trend news agency on August 19.
"At this stage the negotiations with Yerevan are being conducted by
the Georgian Foreign Ministry," an official representative of the
Interior Ministry said.
According to the information, Allahverdi Pelengov, a resident of Burma
village in the Sadakhlo municipality in eastern Georgia, was captured
along with his two Armenian acquaintances in the neutral zone of the
Georgian-Armenian border. From there he was transferred to Yerevan
and his acquaintances were released.
The Georgian police took measures after an inquiry from the kidnapped
person's family. The police took testimony of Pelengov's wife, his
son and eyewitnesses.
According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, at this stage it turned
out that Pelengov was arrested for illegally crossing the Armenian
border.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry thus far has not commented on the
negotiations.
Evidently, the Armenian invaders commit provocative acts not only
against Azerbaijani citizens, but also the citizens of other countries
with Azerbaijani ethnicity.
In July, a soldier of the Azerbaijani army was captured by the Armenian
armed forces after he got lost on the contact line between Azerbaijani
and Armenian troops near Azerbaijan's Tovuz region.
Azerbaijan's State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing
Persons registered 4,033 people as missing, including 46 children,
255 women, and 353 elderly, as of July 1.
According to the Commission, there are specific facts about 877
people, including 22 children, 99 women and 133 elderly, that they
were captured and are in the occupied territories, but Armenia does
not recognize the fact.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the
beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, 1,402 have been released
from Armenian captivity.
A precarious ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia was reached
after a lengthy war that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis and
has been in place between the two South Caucasus countries since 1994.
Since the hostilities, Armenian armed forces have occupied over
20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Aug 20 2013
20 August 2013, 13:03 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Georgia's Foreign Ministry is holding talks with Armenia on returning
a captured ethnic Azerbaijani Georgian citizen, the ministry told
the Baku-based Trend news agency on August 19.
"At this stage the negotiations with Yerevan are being conducted by
the Georgian Foreign Ministry," an official representative of the
Interior Ministry said.
According to the information, Allahverdi Pelengov, a resident of Burma
village in the Sadakhlo municipality in eastern Georgia, was captured
along with his two Armenian acquaintances in the neutral zone of the
Georgian-Armenian border. From there he was transferred to Yerevan
and his acquaintances were released.
The Georgian police took measures after an inquiry from the kidnapped
person's family. The police took testimony of Pelengov's wife, his
son and eyewitnesses.
According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, at this stage it turned
out that Pelengov was arrested for illegally crossing the Armenian
border.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry thus far has not commented on the
negotiations.
Evidently, the Armenian invaders commit provocative acts not only
against Azerbaijani citizens, but also the citizens of other countries
with Azerbaijani ethnicity.
In July, a soldier of the Azerbaijani army was captured by the Armenian
armed forces after he got lost on the contact line between Azerbaijani
and Armenian troops near Azerbaijan's Tovuz region.
Azerbaijan's State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing
Persons registered 4,033 people as missing, including 46 children,
255 women, and 353 elderly, as of July 1.
According to the Commission, there are specific facts about 877
people, including 22 children, 99 women and 133 elderly, that they
were captured and are in the occupied territories, but Armenia does
not recognize the fact.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the
beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, 1,402 have been released
from Armenian captivity.
A precarious ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia was reached
after a lengthy war that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis and
has been in place between the two South Caucasus countries since 1994.
Since the hostilities, Armenian armed forces have occupied over
20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.