In accordance with its obligations Azerbaijan has released all prisoners of war (POWs) to the Armenian side, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told a news briefing following talks with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde, TASS reported.
"Azerbaijan’s stance on this issue is very open and clear. In accordance with the trilateral statement [of November 9 last year] we released to the Armenian side all those taken prisoner during the military operations [in Karabakh] and before it," Bayramov said.
He said that Azerbaijan had begun to release prisoners of war earlier than Armenia, when the hostilities were still in progress.
As for the Armenian military personnel currently being held by Azerbaijan, Bayramov said they c...
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