Armenian defense minister, Head of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons David Tonoyan said recently that talks with the Azerbaijani side on exchanging captives and hostages continue: “We are currently making clarifications on who will be exchanged.”
Coordinator of the Information Center for Azerbaijani Captives and Hostages, human rights defender Ahmad Shahidov, commenting on this statement of the Armenian minister, said that the names of those who will be exchanged are known: “There is no need to clarify here, names are obvious – Armenian side has three Azerbaijani hostages. They are Dilgam Asgarov, Shahbaz Guliyev and Elvin Ibrahimov. And there are also three Armenian diversants – Arsen Bagdasaryan, Zaven Karapetyan and Karen Kazaryan, kept in the Azerbaijani side. Exchanging the captives and hostages on the principle of “All to all”, proposed by official Baku is a subject of discussion.”
Armenian defense minister, Head of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons David Tonoyan said recently that talks with the Azerbaijani side on exchanging captives and hostages continue: “We are currently making clarifications on who will be exchanged.”
Coordinator of the Information Center for Azerbaijani Captives and Hostages, human rights defender Ahmad Shahidov, commenting on this statement of the Armenian minister, said that the names of those who will be exchanged are known: “There is no need to clarify here, names are obvious – Armenian side has three Azerbaijani hostages. They are Dilgam Asgarov, Shahbaz Guliyev and Elvin Ibrahimov. And there are also three Armenian diversants – Arsen Bagdasaryan, Zaven Karapetyan and Karen Kazaryan, kept in the Azerbaijani side. Exchanging the captives and hostages on the principle of “All to all”, proposed by official Baku is a subject of discussion.”