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Armenian citizen, detained in Nakhchivan, transferred back

24 August 2016 10:51 (UTC+04:00)
Armenian citizen, detained in Nakhchivan, transferred back

By Rashid Shirinov

An Armenian citizen, who earlier crossed into the territory of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, has been transferred to the Armenian side on August 23, the State Commission of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing People reported.

The commission stated that 1954-born citizen of Armenia Agetsyan Henrik Sayerbekovich, detained on August 7 in Nakhchivan, was transferred to the opposite side in the Sadarak section of Armenian-Azerbaijani border on August 23.

Azerbaijani servicemen detained Henrik Agetsyan when he tried to enter Azerbaijan from the Sadarak direction of NAR.

The Commission immediately notified the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the incident, and meeting of ICRC employees with the detainee was organized.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

Two decades of talks mediated by the OSCE MG group have failed to produce a breakthrough, and the renewed hostilities, the worst since the ceasefire deal signed in 1994, were assessed as the result of inactivity of the international community.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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