AZERI AUTHORITIES DISPLEASED WITH RED CROSS
Azad Azarbaycan TV
Feb 5 2008
Azerbaijan
[Presenter] Official Baku is displeased with the activities of the
International Committee of the Red Cross. Ali Hasanov, head of [the
public and political] department at the presidential administration,
believes that although the organization is operating within its powers,
there are no real results.
[Hasanov] We are to some extent displeased with this organization’s
activities. We are displeased because they have still not managed
to free Azerbaijanis who are in Armenian captivity or have not
taken sufficiently categorical steps towards that. You know that
we have been displeased recently to a certain extent concerning an
Azerbaijani servicemen who was taken captive by Armenians [presumably,
referring to the fact that Azerbaijani private Samir Mammadov, who
was in Armenian captivity, has been sent to a third country through
the International Committee of the Red Cross]. Our talks with them
concerning this issue are continuing.