ArmInfo.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova does not consider it necessary to provide additional political comments on issues related to prisoners of war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
So, on September 4, during a weekly briefing, answering the question about Azerbaijan's reluctance to return its citizens, including the military, to the Armenian side, in August of this year, under unclear circumstances, who appeared on the Azerbaijani side, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed conviction that these issues are necessary decide in existing and established formats for this. "They are. And I don't think that there is a need for me to give additional political comments, since we really have existing mechanisms. And the co-chairs can, if necessary, use additional mechanisms to assist the parties," she said.
At the same time, Zakharova added that if the relevant parties need additional support, for example, from the same Russia on this issue, then it can be discussed in bilateral formats through diplomatic channels.
It should be noted that on August 13 it became known that on August 12 at about 12:00, on the defensive site of one of the military units of the Defense Army, deployed in the southeastern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact of the troops, the soldier Araik Ghazaryan left the combat dispositions (born in 2000). Later, the Azerbaijani media reported with reference to the military department of Azerbaijan that the soldier in the Azerbaijani side. Armenian Minister of Defense David Tonoyan expressed confidence that the serviceman was on the Azerbaijani side, as he got lost on the ground. A week later, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross were able to visit a prisoner of war and get acquainted with the conditions of his detention. Three Armenian civilians are officially on the Azerbaijani side, who, on far-fetched charges, were sentenced to various prison terms in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is ready to return Armenian prisoners in exchange for two Azerbaijani saboteurs convicted by a court of Nagorno-Karabakh to life imprisonment for murders with particular cruelty.