44 POWs returned to Armenia

During the Yerevan-Baku exchange of prisoners of war (POWs), 44 of them have been returned to Armenia, but some of Armenian ones remain in Azerbaijan, the Karabakh authorities have informed.

Today, Azerbaijan and Armenia have begun exchanging POWs and hostages on the principle of "all for all", the Azerbaijan State Commission on POWs' Affairs has reported. Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilgam Askerov have been brought to Baku by air.

So far, only those citizens of Armenia have been returned, whose capture was recorded both by Azerbaijan and by the Red Cross.

"The process of searching for our other compatriots who may have been captured in Azerbaijan continues," Tigran Avinyan, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia, wrote said on his Facebook.

According to Artak Beglaryan, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh, it is known about 60 Armenian POWs kept in Azerbaijan. Information about them was obtained from open sources, primarily from videos in the social networks posted by Azerbaijani militaries.