Baku and Yerevan submit list of PoWs to ICRC

  05 December 2020    Read: 514
  Baku and Yerevan submit list of PoWs to ICRC

Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged lists of Persons of War (PoWs) and missing servicemen, AzVision.az reports citing the office of Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan.

The parties to the conflict submitted lists of their citizens to the International Committee of the Red Cross for their mutual return.

The lists are currently being completed.

Note, Armenian Armed Forces launched a large-scale military attack on positions of Azerbaijani army on the front line, using large-caliber weapons, mortars and artillery on Sept. 27. Azerbaijan responded with a counter-offensive along the entire front.

On November 10, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement to end six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Under the agreement, Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the front line in Nagorno-Karabakh and the corridor between the region and Armenia.

A total of 1,960 Russian peacekeepers were deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh under a five-year mandate.


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