Dead bodies of 19 Armenian soldiers repatriated after April clashes

  16 June 2016    Read: 2308
Dead bodies of 19 Armenian soldiers repatriated after April clashes
The Working Group on missing servicemen during the 2-5 April clashes on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, operated in continuous regime, the secretary of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons Ismayil Akhundov told, AzVision.az reports.

`Dead bodies of 19 Armenian servicemen were repatriated to the Armenian side and dead bodies of 13 Azerbaijani servicemen have been handed over`, he said.

I.Akhundov stressed that the Working Group tries to bring the issue of human rights violations by Armenia to the agenda of international organizations: `For this purpose, an appeal was addressed to the GUAM. It considers to establish working group within the GUAM. Currently, 3803 people are registered as hostages and captives in the State Commission. 252 of them are women and 709 are civilians. The Armenian side conceals and denies the statistics about the hostages and captives. However, the Working Group keeps on working on the release of the hostages`, he concluded.

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