"The identification of the fate of our citizens who went missing as a result of Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan has been seriously affected not only by the excessive contamination of the territories with mines and unexploded ordnance during the 30-year occupation, the destruction of infrastructure, settlements, landscapes, terrain, and even burial sites as a result of acts of vandalism, but also by the Armenian side's failure to provide information about burial locations," Sharafat Hasanov, Deputy Head of the State Security Service, said at the international conference titled "Modern Approaches to Resolving the Issue of Missing Persons and Strengthening Cooperation", held in cooperation with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), APA reports.
"It is known that after the 44-day Second Karabakh War, high-ranking Armenian military officials who gave interviews to the media, including former Armenian Deputy Defense Minister and later Member of Parliament General Gagik Melkonyan, Samvel Babayan, and others, repeatedly stated that they had information about the burial sites of missing Azerbaijani servicemen. However, this information has still not been provided to the Azerbaijani side.
Former Armenian Deputy Defense Minister General Manvel Grigoryan even admitted in media interviews that he had personally held Azerbaijani prisoners. We believe that all of this not only contradicts universally accepted principles of humanity but also poses a threat to the norms of international humanitarian law.
The Republic of Azerbaijan is open to the world in resolving the issue of missing persons, and we once again declare that we are ready to cooperate with the Armenian side in this area," the Deputy Head of the State Security Service said.
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