ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMED ARMENIAN SOLDIER CAPTURED BY AZERIS
Pan Armenian News
07.04.2005 08:22
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Defense Ministry of Armenia has confirmed the
reports that the Azeri party has taken captive an Armenian soldier,
who serves in one of the units of Noyemberian region of Armenia,
Arminfo agency reported. In the words of Press Secretary of the
Armenian Defense Ministry Seyran Shahsuvarian everything is being
done to return the serviceman at present. “The Minister deals with
the issue in person,” he added. It should be reminded that yesterday
the International Working Group on Search for the Missing, Hostages
and Release of Captives in the Karabakh conflict zone released a
statement on Armenian soldier T. Z. (born in 1985) being captured
April 1 in Noyemberian region. Seyran Shahsuvarian also reported the
circumstances of the capture of the Armenian soldier. In his words,
the serviceman due to a willfully fleeing from the unit, the soldier
lost his way. When searching for him it turned out that he went in
a wrong direction and found himself captured. The soldier not being
armed evidences he had fled. “Thus, the Azeri version that a diversion
group was acting is false,” Shahsuvarian emphasized.