INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF RED CROSS REJECTS LETTER SENT TO AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER CAPTURED BY ARMENIANS

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
July 3 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Òrend corr K. Zarbaliyeva / A letter from the
parents of an Azerbaijani soldier, Samir Mammadov, to him who was
captured by Armenians, was returned. Uncle of the soldier, Vidadi
Mammadov, reported to Trend on 3 July that Samir’s father visited
the Barda region office of the International Committee of the Red
Cross on 2 July. The letter from Samir’s parents was not accepted
by the Barda office of the organization. According to Samir’s uncle,
the Committee said that Samir did not wish to receive letters.

Vidadi Mammadov considers that to be a lie. "It is the third time
that the International Committee of the Red Cross has rejected our
letters. Our latest letter was written on 9 March," he said.

Samir Mammadov was drafted to military service by the Military
Conscription Commission of the Azerbaijani region of Barda on 24
December of 2006. Samir did not reply to the latest letters from his
relatives. Mammadov’s parents insist that Samir is under pressure
from the Armenians, who do not let him maintain a correspondence with
his relatives. He was captured by the Armenian on the Gazakh-Ijevan
border 15km from the military unit.

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