ICRC Head of Armenian delegation: Interaction with Azerbaijan on   missing persons will continue despite closure of our office in Baku

ArmInfo. The Baku delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be closing on September 3 at the request of the Azerbaijani authorities, but this does not mean that our opportunities for work will be  diminished, as stated by the head of the Armenian delegation of the  ICRC, Daphne Marais, in a conversation with journalists  in response  to a question from ArmInfo about the further actions of this  humanitarian organization in addressing the fate of missing persons  after the shutdown of the ICRC office in Azerbaijan.

She emphasized that the efforts made in recent years and decades will  not be forgotten.  Marais believes that now is a decisive moment in  the context of the initialing of the peace agreement between Armenia  and Azerbaijan in Washington on August 8. "The draft states that  ongoing work and coordination with the international organization  will be carried out to address the issue of missing persons. But this  does not mean that we will not maintain contacts with the authorities  in Baku. We will continue to maintain neutrality and offer our  mediation role in several issues. Of course, one of the most  important issues is the issue of missing persons," the head of the  ICRC delegation in Armenia concluded.