Though the information about the vast majority of missing persons was verified by relevant authorities, photos of more than 100 persons couldn’t be found, the Commission said.
The State Commission asks the family members, relatives, friends (schoolmates, fellow students and soldiers, colleagues, neighbors, villagers) of the missing persons in the list to help in finding their photos.
Photos can be presented to the Commission’s working group (Parliament Avenue 14, Baku), structural units of the State Security Service, as well as sent to the email address of the State Commission ([email protected]).
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.
A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.
The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.
Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.
Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, the US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.
Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan continues specifying info on those who went missing during Karabakh conflict
08 September 2016
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Azerbaijan’s State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons continues specifying and systemizing information about those who went missing during the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Commission told on Thursday.
