ArmInfo. A citizen of Azerbaijan who crossed the state border with Armenia is in the status of a detainee. On this March 19, Armenian Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan told journalists.
He noted that a preliminary investigation is now being carried out. As to whether it is possible to exchange a given citizen of Azerbaijan for an Armenian citizen detained in Azerbaijan, or there are opportunities to return the latter, the minister said: "The Armenian authorities fulfill all their obligations, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, representatives of Red Cross. All rights of this citizen will be respected, "Zeynalyan said.
The minister also said that if it was established that the latter had not committed any criminal offense and expressed a desire to return to his homeland, his desire would be fulfilled.
To note, on the night of March 16 around 01.30 in the northeastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, at the defensive point of the Nth military unit, the Armenian Armed Forces' guards were found, warned and, after disobeying the warning, the unknown person who violated the state border was neutralized. After receiving a gunshot wound to the region of the lower extremity, he received first aid, then he was transferred to a medical facility. "It follows from the documents found in him that the violator is a resident of the Gazakh region of Azerbaijan, Alvin Arif Oglu Ibrahimov (born in 1986). A criminal case has been initiated in the investigation department of the National Security Service of Armenia, a preliminary investigation is being conducted," Press secretary of the Ministry of Defense Artsrun Hovhannisyan said. In turn, the Azerbaijani State Commission for Prisoners of war, Hostages and Missing Citizens issued a statement in which it stated that this citizen of Azerbaijan, Ibrahimov, is registered at the hospital for the mentally ill in Gazakh.