NATO backs OSCE MG’s call for returning of Azerbaijani soldier's body
By Rashid Shirinov
The NATO continues to support peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the OSCE process, an official representative of NATO told Trend on January 19.
He said that the peaceful resolution of the conflicts is a core value of the NATO.
“It is also one of the main goals of all partners of the Partnership for Peace program,” said the NATO representative.
He added that NATO also supports the latest statement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, who called on Armenia to immediately return the body of killed Azerbaijani serviceman Chingiz Gurbanov.
A reconnaissance group of the Armenian Armed Forces attempted to violate the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border on December 29, 2016. The Armenian group found itself in the ambush of the Azerbaijani army while violating the borders and suffered heavy losses. During the fighting, Azerbaijani serviceman Chingiz Gurbanov went missing. Later, it was clarified that he was killed by the Armenian Armed Forces and his body remained on the territory controlled by the Armenian armed forces.
To receive back the dead body of the Azerbaijani soldier from Armenia, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry officially appealed to the Azerbaijani representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), OSCE Minsk Group, as well as to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Despite numerous insistent appeals of international structures regarding the return of Chingiz Gurbanov’s body, the Armenian government still keeps the dead body.
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