ICRC's Yerevan Office has received no requests on POW repatriation

To date, no request or claim on organizing the repatriation of either Armenian or Azerbaijani refugees has been submitted to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), according to Ashot Astabatsyan, Communication Programs Coordinator at ICRC Yerevan Office.

“The International Committee of the Red Cross has the status of a neutral mediator, and its activities towards organizing repatriation derive from such status,” he told Tert.am.

According to Mr. Astabatsyan, there are currently 8 prisoners of war, 6 civilians as well as 3 dead bodies on Armenian and Azerbaijani territories.

In a recent meeting in Astrakhan, Russia, Armenian and Azeri Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev reached an agreement on exchanging prisoners of war and returning the dead bodies of all those killed as a result of ceasefire violation.