Guided by the principle of humanism, the Republic of Azerbaijan has handed over 8 servicemen of Armenian origin to the Armenian side on February 7, 2022, the State Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons informs.

Some of them are servicemen detained on November 16, 2021, while preventing the provocation committed by the Armenian armed forces in the direction of the Kalbajar region of the state border.

İn return to this humanitarian step of the Azerbaijani side, the Armenian side must provide the Azerbaijani side with information about the Azerbaijani military and civilian citizens killed in the first Armenian-Azerbaijani war and likely to be buried in mass graves, as well as the location of such mass graves.

Notable the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan raised the issue of providing information to the Azerbaijani side about the location of the mass graves of our citizens, who went missing in the first Armenian-Azerbaijani war, and the Armenian side undertook to cooperate in this matter during the videoconference held on February 4 at the initiative of the President of the French Republic with the participation of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of the European Union Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Council Charles Michel and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

The mentioned issue was supported by the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.