After Tripartite Declaration, Azerbaijan handed over bodies of 1,713 Armenian servicemen to Yerevan

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 776 people of Armenian descent were considered missing during the First Karabakh War, and 345 during the Second Karabakh War, Ismayil Akhundov, Secretary of Azerbaijan's State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, said at the conference on "Identification of Missing Persons - Humanitarian Approach" dedicated to August 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Report informs.

According to him, as a result of the joint measures implemented after the Tripartite Statement of November 10, 2020, the corpses of 1,713 Armenian servicemen were found and handed over to the other side:

"During the first Karabakh war, 1,480 Azerbaijanis were released from captivity, and 509 people were handed over to the other side. At the same time, the corpses of dozens of people from both sides who were killed in the conflict line of the troops and died in captivity were handed over to the parties through the mediation of the ICRC. In general, more than 650 humanitarian processes were carried out with the participation of the ICRC. After the Tripartite Statement, the Armenian side handed over 25 Azerbaijani citizens (19 soldiers, 6 civilians) to the Republic of Azerbaijan. Five of them (1 soldier, 4 civilians) were detained before September 27, 2020. The Republic of Azerbaijan released 159 people (118 prisoners, 41 civilians, including 5 women) of Armenian origin. Six of them (4 militaries, 2 civilians) were detained before September 27, 2020. Adhering to its obligations arising from the norms of international humanitarian law, the Republic of Azerbaijan interned captured Armenian servicemen and civilians evacuated from the war zone, and provided them with decent treatment, food and water supply, and treatment rights for the wounded. The State Commission regularly submitted information about captured Armenian servicemen and detained persons to the ICRC and created comprehensive conditions for the institution's employees to visit them. Also, it was ensured that prisoners and detained persons could write letters to their relatives, send video messages, and maintain telephone contact."