ArmInfo.Chairman of the RA Committee on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, Acting RA Minister of Defense David Tonoyan received the parents of A resident of the village of Berdavan of Tavush region, a citizen of the Republic of Armenia Karen Ghazaryan was captured in Azerbaijan.As stated in the official statement of the ministry, during the meeting, the parents expressed concern about the possible exacerbation of their son's state of health, once again reminding that after undergoing compulsory military service in the period 2004-2006.K.
Kazaryan did not serve in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia.In turn, D. Tonoyan noted that the Armenian side is working intensively towards returning K. Kazaryan to Armenia, cooperating with both the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and a delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.However, the.
The Minister of Defense expressed the hope that the Azerbaijani authorities would consider the question of returning Karen Ghazaryan to their homeland in a humanitarian context, and not within the framework of an exchange of prisoners of war of the opposing sides.It should be noted that on June 15, Azerbaijani media reported that an attempt to penetrate a "sabotage group from the Armenian side was suppressed in Gazakh region, and one of the members of the group named Karen Ghazaryan (b. 1984) was taken prisoner".
Meanwhile, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan, responding to this information, said that a resident of the village of Berdavan of the Tavush region Karen Ghazaryan (b. 1984) does not serve and has never served in the Armenian armed forces. In turn, the Police of Armenia also called the message of the Azerbaijani side disinformation. "Karen Ghazaryan is a resident of the border village of Berdavan, Tavush region of Armenia, and has no relation to military service. He has health problems, and since 2013 he has been registered with the relevant medical institution. Currently, the circumstances of how Karen Ghazaryan was clarified in Azerbaijan, "wrote the former head of the Armenian Police press service, Ashot Aharonyan, on his Facebook page. Recall that on November 13, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan stated that the issue of the return of Ghazaryan is on the agenda of Yerevan.