AZERBAIJAN’S STATE COMMISSION: GRANT GABRIELYAN WAS HANDED OVER TO THE ICRC REPRESENTATION, NOT TO THE OFFICIALS OF THE SO-CALLED REGIME

Azeri Press Agency
Aug 20 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Mahbuba Gasimbayli – APA. "The reports given to media outlets
by the ‘State Commission of the so-called Nagorno Karabakh Republic
about Gabrielyan Grant Samvelovich, who was detained in the territory
close to the positions of Azerbaijani servicemen on May 16 this year
and handed over on August 19, are not right," says the statement made
by the Working Group of the State Commission on Prisoners of War,
Hostages and Missing Persons, APA reports.

The statement says after Grant Gabrielyan was detained during the
talks for identifying him it was found out that he had a number of
health problems.

"At first he acted strange, he had difficulty in answering questions,
telling his home address and workplace. During all this time no
one concerned himself with him or appealed to the State Commission
on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons. The so-called
commission remembered this only after the citizen was handed over. If
they were concerned over Grant Gabrielyan, they would have appealed
at least to the international organizations. But they did not do it,"
the statement says.

The Working Group of the State Commission said only the representatives
of ICRC office in Khankendi attended the handover procedure.

"Thus, Gabrielyan was handed over to the representation of the
International Committee of the Red Cross, not to the officials of
the so-called regime," the statement says.