He noted that these are important humanitarian and confidence building gestures by Baku and Yerevan that will hopefully open the path for further cooperation between the sides and the release of all Armenian detainees, as well as the handing over of all available maps of mined areas to avoid further civilian casualties.
"The European Union and other international actors have actively encouraged moves in this direction and we urge further cooperation between the countries involved," Borrell.
On June 12, Azerbaijan returned 15 detained Armenians back to Armenia with the participation of Georgian representatives on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border on June 12, 2021, in exchange for providing the Azerbaijani side with maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district, liberated from Armenian occupation.
