Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr S. Aghayeva / The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has disproved reports on the detention of an Azerbaijani citizen by Armenian Armed Forces. Azerbaijani Armed Forces do not have a military man with such a name and surname, according to the Ministry.
The Armenian media had spread rumours regarding the detention of an Azerbaijani citizen on 2 August in the north-east direction of the contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops while he was passing the Nagorno-Karabakh side. As it was reported to Mediamax by the State Commission of self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic' on issues of military captured and missing persons, the soldier did not carry an identity card. He stated his name as Aliyev Anar Marifoglu, 28, and a citizen of the Azerbaijani Terter region.