HEAD OF WORKING GROUP OF RA STATE COMMISSION: AZERBAIJANI PARTY DISINFORMS, CLAIMING AS IF TWO ARMENIANS BEING PRESENTLY IN AZERBAIJAN, HAVE NO WILL TO RETURN TO ARMENIA

2007-12-04 15:24:00

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani party disinforms claiming as if two Armenians,
being presently in Azerbaijan, have no will to return to Armenia,
Head of the Working Group of RA State Commission on captives, hostages
and missing persons, assistant first deputy Head of RA Police Armen
Kaprielyan told ArmInfo.

"We have an information about a serviceman Hambartsum Asatryan,
according to which he addressed a request to ICRC representatives
on return to the Motherland", H. Kaprielyan said and added that this
information is of official nature and was received by ICRC channel.

H. Kaprielyan also denied the information of the Azerbaijani Mass
Media saying that the Armenian party did not raise the issue of return
of the two Armenian captives. "As I have already said, in the course
of transfer of AR citizen Maxim Binnatov, I addressed a question to
deputy Head of the Working Group of AR State Commission Eldar Samedov,
to which he replied that he is unaware of whether they want to return
or no". H. Kaprielyan also emphasized that it has been one and a half
year the Azerbaijani party refutes of direct contacts, while meetings
of representatives of the two countries’ State Commissions are held
from time to time, during transfer of captives. "The Azerbaijani party
tries to use any chance for propagandistic purposes and disinform both
its public and the world community", H. Kaprielyan said. He expressed
an opinion that Azerbaijan’s position with respect to the two captive
Armenians is a clumsy attempt to reply to refusal of the Azerbaijani
Army serviceman Samir Mamedov to return to the Motherland.

To recall, there are presently two Armenians, a serviceman Hambartsum
Asatryan and a civilian Valery Suleymanyan, in the Azerbaijani
captivity.