BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 20
Trend:
The U.S. welcomed the transfer of 10 detainees by Azerbaijan to Armenia, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price wrote on his Twitter page, Trend reports.
"We welcome Azerbaijan's release of 10 Armenian detainees on December 19 with EU support," he wrote.
As a result of the trilateral meeting between President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, which took place on December 14 in Brussels on the initiative on the initiative of the European Council of the EU Charles Michel, as well as a bilateral meeting between the President of Azerbaijan and the head of the EU Council of Europe, Azerbaijan on December 19 with the mediation of the European Union transferred to Armenia 10 Armenian military personnel.
The transferred persons were detained by Azerbaijan on November 16, 2021, while preventing a provocation by the Armenian armed forces in the Kalbajar direction of the state border.