Yerevan says ready for more intensive cooperation with Baku on issue of missing persons

Armenia's Interdepartmental Commission on the Issues of Prisoners, Hostages and Missing Persons has expressed its readiness to intensify cooperation with the Azerbaijani side.

Report informs via Sputnik Armenia that the interdepartmental commission said they are ready to "cooperate with Azerbaijan in order to clarify the fate of persons who are listed as missing."

It also emphasized that the remains of 140 Azerbaijanis who died in the 90s were transferred to Baku.

"Starting in November 2020, Armenia transferred topographic materials to Azerbaijan indicating the possible burial places of the bodies of 51 Azerbaijanis who died in the 44-day war, as well as about 50 people who died in the 90s," the commission said in a statement.