Armenia denies Azerbaijan’s lie, declaring that there are no
Azerbaijani POWs in Armenia

16:25, 24 January, 2015

YEREVAN, 24 JANUARY, ARMENPRESS. There are no Azerbaijani captives in
the territory of the Republic of Armenia. In an interview with
“Armenpress”, head of the working group adjunct to the State
Commission on Prisoners of War (POW), Hostages and the Missing Persons
Armen Kaprielyan denied the statistics presented by his
Azerbaijani counterpart Firudin Sadigov, according to which Armenia
keeps 31 prisoners of war who are citizens of Azerbaijan.

“Azerbaijan always changes the figures whenever it makes a statement
or presents statistics. In 2009, Azerbaijan declared that there are
5,000 Azerbaijani POWs in Armenia. Later, it realized that that’s
absurd and started reducing the number. A couple of months ago, the
country declared that there are more than 40 POWs in Armenia, and now
it says there are 31 POWs. Frankly, this is already ridiculous. Even
Azerbaijan doesn’t understand what it’s doing. Every civil rights
defender and non-governmental organization presents statistics based
on some document and always changes the figures. I officially announce
once again that there are no Azerbaijani prisoners of war in Armenia,”
Kaprielyan said.