THE WAR PRISONERS WILL BE RETURNED, NOT EXCHANGED
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23-03-2005
In Tbilisi the meeting of the representatives of the Armenian and
Azerbaijani State Committees of war prisoners and people missing
in action took place. The Armenian side was represented by Michael
Grigoryan, deputy head of the RA State Committee, and Leo Agajanov,
his assistant.
Svetlana Ganushkina and Bernard Klazen, co-heads of the international
working group looking for people missing in action during the Karabakh
conflict also took part in the meeting.
Mechanisms of constructive cooperation were worked out, on the basis
of the principle of returning the prisoners after the corresponding
check-up as soon as possible.
The participants of the meeting consider the exchange of people
immoral, and in future the stress will be put on the return of the
prisoners, not on the exchange.
The sides are ready to give the international organizations and the
relatives of the prisoners the possibility of meeting them, for them
to make sure that there is the possibility for them to return home.