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Armenia and Azerbaijan plan not to exchange prisoners hence, but to release them

24 March 2005 [14:22] - TODAY.AZ
The state commission of Azerbaijan and Armenia on issues of military prisoners and lost persons plans running regular direct contacts.
Such agreement was concluded at the meeting of representatives of State commission of both states in Tbilisi.

The agency Trend was informed, Azerbaijan state commission was represented  by secretary of Commission Shahin Sailov and the chief of Working group Firudin  Sadigov and Armenian party was represented by the deputy chairman of State  commission Mikhail Grigorian and his assistant Leo Agajanov. Co-chairmen of the International working group on search of lost persons and release of prisoners in Karabakh area Svetlana Gannushkina and Bernkhard Klazen participated at the meeting.

The meeting was held in business atmosphere, in conditions of mutual understanding. Mechanism of constructive cooperation, based on principle of returning of prisoners as soon as possible and without running of necessary checking, was developed. Participants of the meeting consider exchange of prisoners as immoral fact, and in future will raise only the issue on release of prisoners.

Parties declared their readiness to create conditions for meeting of relatives and representatives of international organizations with prisoners.

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