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Russian FM: Diplomatic opportunities must be used to return Azerbaijani soldier's body

13 January 2017 [12:19] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Rashid Shirinov

Diplomatic opportunities must be used to return the body of the killed Azerbaijani soldier, now being kept by the Armenian side.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced about this during a briefing on January 12.

A reconnaissance group of the Armenian Armed Forces attempted to violate the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border on December 29, 2016. The Armenian group found itself in the ambush of the Azerbaijani army while violating the borders and suffered heavy losses.

During the fighting, Azerbaijani serviceman Chingiz Gurbanov went missing. Later, it was clarified that he was killed by the Armenian Armed Forces and his body remained on the territory controlled by the Armenian Armed Forces.

Previously, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland, OSCE Minsk Group, as well as the Azerbaijani representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross urged Armenia to return the body of the killed Azerbaijani soldier.

 Despite all the calls by Azerbaijan and the international community, Armenia refuses to return the dead body of Azerbaijani soldier, showing inhuman attitude.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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