The Armenian side attaches great importance to a proposed monitoring by the office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border near Nakhijevan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.
At a briefing with reporters on Tuesday, July 31, Balayan said the monitoring could help restrain Azerbaijan's possible aggression.
“In light of recent provocations by Azerbaijan in that section of the border, the Armenian side has asked the office of personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk to hold a monitoring,” Balayan said.
“While the Azerbaijani side has not given consent to holding a monitoring, the Armenian side continues with its efforts.”
The spokesman also said that the Ministry has no information about an Armenian citizen who had crossed the border to Azerbaijan in unknown circumstances.
Balayan added that Azerbaijan has not allowed the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit the captive, Karen Ghazaryan.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said earlier Ghazaryan (b. 1984), a resident of the village of Berdavan, doesn’t serve in the army and has never been drafted.
Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan said in a Facebook post that Minister Davit Tonoyan, who also chairs the Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, has already asked the Yerevan office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help arrange the return of Ghazaryan.
The police revealed then that Ghazaryan has health issues and has been registered in a medical facility since 2013.
