Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 30 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
The Azerbaijan State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons has accused Armenia of violating the agreed captive hand over procedure.
As a result of the effective negotiations conducted by the Commission with international organizations, forty-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Telman Aliyev, who was captured by Armenian servicemen in Gazakh region on November 12, was released at the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the Bala Jafarli village, Gazakh region on November 30, the official website of the State Commission said.
After releasing, Telman Aliyev was handed over to close relatives in the presence of the relevant state agencies. His health condition is normal. The employees of a working group of the State Commission, the Ministry of Defense and the International Committee of the Red Cross, acting as a neutral mediator, attended the hand over process.
According to the report, although the captive was handed over without incident, the Armenian side acted beyond the initially-agreed procedure and the day before made a statement about the upcoming hand over process and created the conditions for journalists' participation.
Moreover, the Armenian armed servicemen also arrived. In this regard, the State Commission has protested. The employees of the Armenian State Commission participating in the hand over process were informed about the protest through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has exerted efforts to dissuade the Armenian State Commission from this action, but failed.