FAMILY SEND LETTER TO AZERBAIJANI CAPTIVE

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 23 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend K.Zarbaliyeva / The family of the
Azerbaijan National Army soldier, Samir Mammadov, who was taken
prisoner by the Armenians on 24 December 2006, has sent another letter
to Mammadov.

Mammadov’s mother, who has not received a letter from her son, has
asked that he write. Mammadov’s last letter was written on 3 March.

His parents believed he was pressurized by the Armenians.

Samir Mammadov had been called up for military service from Barda
district of Azerbaijan last year and was taken prisoner by the
Armenians on the Gazakh-Ijevan border.