Armenia Dismisses Reports on Azeri Officer’s Capture

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Aug 19 2005

The Armenian defense ministry has dismissed media reports saying that
an Azeri serviceman was taken captive, Armenian media reported.

According to the Azerbaijan State Commission on Prisoners of War,
Hostages and Missing Persons, the Yerevan office of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) informed the organization’s
Baku office on Monday that 22-year-old Azeri warrant officer Ramin
Khudaverdiyev was captured by Armenia.

The ICRC representatives in Yerevan visited Khudaverdiyev on
Wednesday. The Azeri officer passed on to them a letter to be forwarded
to his parents.