Armenia`s NSS continues efforts to evacuate bodies of two Armenian  servicemen killed at last year`s enemy aggression

ArmInfo.From December 19, 2022 to the present, 101 written applications have been submitted to the  commission on issues of prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons for information on legal, medical and social issues of the  circumstances of their disappearance.  This is stated in the message of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia.

Emphasizing the need for legal regulation of relations with  prisoners, hostages and missing persons, the Chairman of the  Commission instructed the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of  Armenia to develop a draft concept of the law on prisoners, hostages  and missing (location unknown) persons, and the Ministry of Labor and  Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia to assess the needs of the  families of the hostages and the missing.

The department also assured that director of the National Security  Service, Major General Armen Abazyan, continues to meet regularly  with the parents and relatives of the missing. persons

As a result of the 44-day war and post-war, the bodies of 422 dead  Armenian servicemen were returned to the Republic of Armenia, of  which 225 were killed during an enemy attack in September 2022, the  work to evacuate the bodies of 2 Armenian servicemen who died as a  result of the September attack continues.  

It should be noted that the exact number of Armenian prisoners of war  held in Baku after the 44-day large- scale military aggression  against Nagorno-Karabakh is still not known. The authorities of the  Azerbaijan Republic confirm that they have about three dozen Armenian  prisoners of war. The human rights defender reports that there are  several hundred prisoners of war in Azerbaijan. Many of them were  illegally sentenced to long-term imprisonment by Azerbaijani courts  on far-reaching articles. It is known that Armenian prisoners of war  are subjected to harsh treatment in captivity, and all this is  happening against the backdrop of the silence of the international  community, which has double standards on the issue of humanism.