MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN TO RETURN CAPTURED AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER: STATE COMMISSION SECRETARY
K. Zarbaliyeva
Trend News Agency
May 12 2009
Azerbaijan
State Commission on Hostages, POWs and Missing People confirmed
reports about Azerbaijan’s army soldiers being taken hostage by the
Armenian army.
The commission’s secretary Shain Sailov told Trend News on May 11 that
the commission will take necessary measures to return Anar Hajiyev
who was taken hostage by Armenian army.
Azerbaijani Armed Forces sergeant Anar Hajiyev was taken hostage in
Fuzuli contact line on May 10. Hajiyev, who was called up for military
service from Goranboy, has been taken hostage in unknown conditions.
Hostage’s mother Naila Hajiyeva said to Trend News that her son did
not complain of any problems in the military unit he served.
"Anar was going to complete military service in six months. A week
ago he said during a telephone conversation that he will come for a
holiday after 10 days," she said.
Hajiyeva said he last met his son prior to the Novruz holiday.
She said Anar lived in Russia for the last three years. "He joined
Azerbaijani army voluntarily when he turned 18."
One Azerbaijani soldier is in Armenian captivity at present.
20-year old soldier Rafig Hasanov Rahman oglu was taken hostage by
Armenian soldiers on Oct. 8, 2008.