Armenia confirms soldier taken captive in Azerbaijan

Arminfo, Yerevan
18 Mar 06

The spokesman for the Armenian Defence Ministry, Col Seyran
Shakhsuvaryan, has confirmed that an Armenian soldier had been taken
captive in Azerbaijan, Arminfo news agency said on 18 March.

The agency quoted an Azerbaijani official as telling the International
Committee of the Red Cross and the international working group for
POWs, hostages and missing persons that the soldier, who had gone
missing on 3 March, was taken captive by Azerbaijan.