Defense Ministry refutes reports on captivated Azerbaijani soldier
By Jamila Babayeva
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that a man, reportedly captured by the Armenian Armed Forces, is not the soldier of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Trend Agency reports.
Earlier Armenian media reported about the capture of Azerbaijani citizen who was allegedly a military serviceman of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Quasi, the captured man is Shahbaz Guliyev, born in 1968.
Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s.
The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the US and the OSCE Minsk Group are underway on the basis of a peaceful outline -called Madrid Principle -proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.
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