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| 14:49:46 | 10-05-2005 | Politics |

POWS RETURNED TO AZERBAIJAN

May 7 at 2 p.m. local time at the Karabakh and Azeri armed forces contact
line the NKR State Commission on POWs and missing conveyed to the Azeri
party three soldiers – Hayal Abdullayev, Hikmet Tagiyev and Ruslan Bakirov,
who were captured February 15 when attempting to cross the demarcation line.

Within the frames of its international commitments the Karabakh party in
time informed about the incident the representations of the International
Red Cross (IRC) and the OSCE. Presently the conveyance of the soldiers was
carried out with the mediation of the IRC and the Office of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office after the achievement of an
appropriated agreement with the Azeri party.