AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTRY INVESTIGATES SOLDIER’S CAPTURE

Azeri Press Agency
April 14 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Teymour Guliyev- APA. "Reports on the capturing Azerbaijani
soldier Vusal Heybatov are not real. There is no such information and
we are investigating this issue", Eldar Sabiroglu, Press Officer of
Azerbaijan Defense Ministry told APA.

Shahin Sayilov, Secretary of the State Committee on Prisoners, Hostages
and Missing People, also told APA that they had no information about
the captured soldier. "We are investigating this report together with
the International Committee of the Red Cross".

Armenian "Novosti-Armenia" agency reports that Azerbaijani servicemen
Vusal Shirsultan oglu Heybatov was captured by the Armenians on
April 11 in the direction of Yusifjanli village of Aghdam Region,
Azerbaijan. The agency quoted the separatist commission on prisoners
and missing people. The soldier had no identification document. It
was cleared 19-year-old soldier was mobilized by the Shamakhi Region
Military Enlistment Office. The Armenian side said they had informed
OSCE and IRCC Offices in Nagorno Karabakh about the incident.