Trend, Azerbaijan
April 3 2010
Armenia hands over Azerbaijani citizens’ bodies killed by its armed forces
03.04.2010 13:16
Azerbaijan, Baku, April 3 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
Bodies of Azerbaijani citizens killed by Armenian armed forces have
been brought to Sadarak region in Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic
April 3, at 12:00 a.m, the International Committee of the Red Cross
spokeswoman in Baku Gulnaz Guliyeva said.
Residents of the Gazakh region – Huseynov Hasan Husein oglu and
Namazov Sakit Sharif oglu passed from the Gazakh region to the
territory of Armenia and were killed by Armenian armed forces March
2-3.
Bodies have been handed over with the assistance of the International
Committee of the Red Cross.
Azerbaijani citizen, who is held hostage by the Armenian side, will be
handed over to the Azerbaijani side April 7, Sailov said. He said that
the name of a hostage to be released is still unknown.
At present, the Armenian side holds two Azerbaijani captives and one hostage.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the
occupied territories.