NKR LEADERSHIP’S GOODWILL GESTURE

DeFacto Agency
2007-09-18 16:52:00
Armenia

Nagorno-Karabagh Republic authorities expressed readiness to pass a
citizen of Azerbaijan arrested while crossing the territory controlled
by NKR in a unilateral order.

According to the information DE FACTO got at NKR State Commission for
POWs and the Missing, 22-year-old Ashraf Jafarov, native of Garachukhur
settlement of Azerbaijan’s Surakhanlin region, residing in the village
of Uchoglan of Aghdam region, had been arrested on the Aghdam direction
of Nagorno-Karabagh and Azeri Armed Forces’ contact line June 30.

Jafarov did not have any identifying documents; being arrested he
presented himself as Samandar Guliyev, native of the town of Shoushi,
residing in the village of Uchoglan.

Taking into consideration the reasons of Jafarov’s health, NKR
President Bako Sahakian has decided to pass him to Azerbaijan in a
unilateral order as a goodwill gesture.

"The Nagorno-Karabagh Republic leadership expresses hope that
Azerbaijan’s authorities will also express goodwill and release two
our compatriots held by the Azeri party for a long time", NKR State
Commission Chair Victor Kocharian said.