ArmInfo.Chairman of the RA Committee on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, Acting RA Minister of Defense David Tonoyan received the parents of A  resident of the village of Berdavan of Tavush region, a citizen of  the Republic of Armenia Karen Ghazaryan was captured in Azerbaijan.As  stated in the official statement of the ministry, during the meeting,  the parents expressed concern about the possible exacerbation of  their son's state of health, once again reminding that after  undergoing compulsory military service in the period 2004-2006.K. 

ArmInfo.Acting Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan received the newly appointed representative of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross  (ICRC) in Armenia Claire Meitro.

ArmInfo.The decision to release and return the detainees to their homeland belongs to the  parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Head of the Communication  Programs of the ICRC Delegation in Yerevan Zara Amatuni said in an  interview with ArmInfo correspondent, referring to the situation  related to the Armenian captive Karen Ghazaryan.

ArmInfo.The Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense  Gabriel Balayan called the "absolute lie" information that Baku offered Yerevan to exchange captives. "As of 10:20am, November 8, the Armenian Ministry of Defense did not receive such a proposal," he  said on November 8 in an interview with journalists.

ArmInfo. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of  America), together with the Personal Representative of the OSCE  Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, visited the region from 29  October to 2 November, the press statement of the Co- Chairs reads. 

ArmInfo.On October 5, Minister of Foreign  Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) Masis  Mayilian received the newly appointed Head of the International  Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mission in Artsakh Pierre-Emmanuel  Ducruet,  the press service of Artsakh Foreign Ministry informs.  

ArmInfo. Armenia is in constant contact with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the issue of Armenian captives, as this is the  only opportunity.

ArmInfo. Families of 4500 missing people as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict still hope of finding their relatives alive. Today marks the International Day of Missing People.

ArmInfo. The night before, the staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with Karen Ghazaryan, a citizen of Armenia who was captured by Azerbaijan. Anna Hakobyan, the wife of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nicola  Pashinyan, wrote about this on her facebook page.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan does not allow organizing OSCE monitoring in Nakhijevan direction, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tigran Balayan stated this at a press conference.

ArmInfo.On the issue of Karen Ghazaryan, who is in captivity in Azerbaijan, Ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan appealed to international authorities.

ArmInfo. A citizen of Armenia, Karen Ghazaryan, who has recently been taken captive by  the Azerbaijani side, is not a military man, as Baku tries to present, he is a civilian and all relevant documents have been transferred to the  International Committee of the Red Cross and Minsk Group Co-Chairs,  Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan told journalists. 

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ArmInfo.The framework for cooperation between the Armenian Defense Ministry and the Yerevan office of the International Committee of the Red Cross was discussed  during the June 11 meeting by RA Defense Minister David Tonoyan and  the head of the ICRC's Yerevan office, Caroline Duez, who completes  the mission in our country. ArmInfo was informed about this in the  press service of the Defense Ministry.

ArmInfo. Staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Armenian warprisoners, who are in Azerbaijan and Azeris, who are in Armenia.

ArmInfo. Representatives of ICRC Baku office visited Armenians in Azerbaijani captivity.

ArmInfo. The problems of families of persons missing as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict continue to be the focus of attention of the Armenian Defense Ministry.

ArmInfo. The International  Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) acts as a neutral intermediary to  support efforts of the conflict sides to determine the fate of those  persons. In connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, there are  over 4,500 missing people, both military and civilians, registered by  the ICRC Delegations in Armenia and Azerbaijan and its Mission in  Nagorno-Karabakh. More than 400 of them were registered in Armenia.  Since 2014, the organization has been collecting DNA from the close  relatives of the missing. The goal is to preserve information that  may be used to identify human remains in the future.

ArmInfo. Employees of International Committee of the Red Cross visited persons detained as a result of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in August this year, worker of  information department of ICRC mission in Artsakh Eteri Musaelyan  stated to ArmInfo's reporter. 

ArmInfo. The International Committee of the Red Cross conducts a confidential dialogue with the two parties on access to the detained person. This was stated in the  conversation with the correspondent of ArmInfo by the head of communication programs of the Yerevan delegation of the ICRC Zara Amatuni.