Guterres: UN ready to cooperate on Azerbaijanis who went missing during Karabakh war

The UN is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan regarding Azerbaijanis who went missing during the Karabakh war, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with Report.

According to Guterres, the UN is totally at the disposal of governments to find missing people in any place, anywhere and for whatever reason: “We do not like the situation in which people are missing and the families suffer. So we will do everything we can, according to possible cooperation in this, in any other situation, to cooperate in everything that is linked to finding missing people, or knowing what has happened.”

Guterres also commented on Armenia's contamination of Azerbaijani territories with mines: “UNDP has been actively engaging in supporting the Azerbaijani Government. Already 350,000 people have benefited from a joint effort to demine. So, mines are, of course, something that should not exist. We have no doubt in saying that clearly. But we are fully supporting the government of Azerbaijan in order to allow for areas to be demined. Because demining, the end of contamination, is essential for people to go back to their areas of origin and for the development process for achieving the SDGs for all the important projects that the government might have to the benefit of its population.

Read the full interview here.