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  • BAKU: Russia expresses regret over loss of life in Nagorno-Karabakh

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Aug 25 2014


    Russia expresses regret over loss of life in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

    25 August 2014, 13:48 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Moscow has expressed regret over that the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict is still claiming more lives.

    Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich called on the
    Armenian and Azerbaijani sides to stick to the joint statement of the
    Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents issued on October 27,
    2010 on the exchange of dead bodies with the assistance of the OSCE
    Minsk Group and the ICRC, "Vesti" TV channel reported.

    He also noted the necessity of thoroughly investigating the killing of
    people in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.

    Lukashevich expressed condolences to the families of the deceased
    Azerbaijanis and Armenians and regretted that delay in the conflict
    settlement is claiming more lives.

    Recently, Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali
    Hasanov appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross
    (ICRC) with a proposal to exchange hostages between two sides.

    Azerbaijan offered Armenia to exchange an Armenian family of five
    persons, as well as the corpse of an Armenian saboteur, who died of
    heart failure in return for Azerbaijanis, taken hostage in the
    occupied Kalbajar region, and Hasan Hasanov's corpse.

    However, the ICRC told the Azerbaijani side that the Armenians are
    willing to exchange only the corpse of murdered Hasan Hasanov for the
    corpse of the saboteur Karen Petrosyan, according to Hasanov.

    Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry earlier said that Petrosyan entered the
    territory of Azerbaijan to carry out a provocation. He died of heart
    failure in Azerbaijan.

    Three Azerbaijani civilians (Russian citizen Dilgam Asgarov,
    Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Guliyev and Hasan Hasanov) were detained
    by Armenian forces in early July while they were visiting the graves
    of their late relatives. ICRC Baku office earlier reported that Hasan
    Hasanov was buried in Nagorno-Karabakh after being killed by Armenian
    forces.

    Previously, Armenian media reported that a criminal case was filed
    against the Azerbaijani hostages.

    Armenia violated the international legal norms by taking hostage the
    Azerbaijani civilians as they didn't violate any border law between
    Armenia and Azerbaijan. They were on their own native Kalbajar region.

    http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/69942.html

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