14.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. A special plane transferred today from “Zvartnots” Yerevan airport to Baku Azeri war prisoner Ramiz Mamedov.
According to Mamedov, he was treated normally in captivity and he is going back to his motherland without any misgivings.
Thus, one Azeri war prisoner and one civil person of Azeri nationality remain today in Armenia. Prisoner Sultanov doesn’t want to return to Azerbaijan yet.
Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakhi authorities have lately sharply activated the process of returning Azeri war prisoners. On July 21, 2000 3 Azeri war captives – Sabir Islamov, Kyarman Ragimov and Elnur Kyarimov were transferred from Yerevan to Baku.
On July 18 a UN plane transferred from Yerevan to Baku 6 Azeri war captives – 4 from the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh and 2 from Armenia. -0-