AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER ARRESTED IN NKR TERRITORY IS TRANSFERRED TO AUTHORITIES OF HIS COUNTRY
Noyan Tapan
Dec 26 2006
STEPANAKERT, DECEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The authorities of the Republic
of Nagorno Karabakh transferred to the Azerbaijani side on December
23 Azerbaijani private soldier Vusal Mahomed oghli Garachayev, born in
1988 in the region of Belakan, Azerbaijan. According to the information
of the NKR State Committee on Prisoners of War and Traceless Lost
People, the transfer took place near the village of Bash-Karvend, the
region of Aghdam, with the mediation of the International Commitee of
the Red Cross (ICRC). V.Garachayev passed to the Karabakh side and
was arrested with the weapon in his hand by servicemen of the NKR
Defence Army in the direction of Aghdam of the contact line of the
Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan Armed Forces. The NKR authorities,
corresponding to the undertaken international obligations, in time
informed the OSCE and ICRC offices accredited in Nagorno Karabakh about
the happened. The Red Cross representatives were given a possibility
to meet without prohibitions with V.Garachaev who was maintaining
relations with their help with his relatives in Azerbaijan.