Emmanuel Macron and Charles Michel on return of eight Armenian POWs  from Baku

ArmInfo. French President Emmanuel Macron and President of the European Council Charles Michel commented on the transfer of eight Armenian prisoners of war by  Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Thus, the President of France in his microblog on Twitter, in  particular, wrote: "Eight  Armenian detainees were released by  Azerbaijan and transferred from Baku to Yerevan.  They were reunited  with their families, from whom they had been separated for several  months. Thanks to our diplomats, as well as our soldiers who were  mobilized for this operation. We're moving on."

In turn, the President of the European Council expressed his  conviction that the release by Azerbaijan and the transfer of Armenia  to 8 Armenian detainees is another sign of positive developments  following the remote meeting last week between French President  Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Council Charles Michel,  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan.

"The EU supports stability and prosperity in the region," Michel  tweeted on his microblock.  

Earlier, the Armenian Foreign Ministry published the names of  servicemen returned from Azerbaijani captivity. According to the  media, some of them are servicemen captured on November 16, 2021  during another Azerbaijani provocation.  It is worth noting that the  exact number of prisoners of war and civilians held in Azerbaijani  captivity after the large-scale military aggression of Azerbaijan  against Artsakh in the fall of 2020 is still not known.  

According to experts, there are several hundred of them. Baku  confirms the presence of about seven dozen people.  Armenian  prisoners of war and civilians are subjected to inhuman treatment and  torture in captivity.  Many of them became defendants in fictitious  criminal cases and were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.