The U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group welcomes the return of the Armenian soldier to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
“We welcome the humanitarian gesture from Azerbaijan to return an Armenian soldier who crossed the Line of Contact,” he wrote on his Twitter page.
NKR Defense Army conscript, Private Andranik Grigoryan (born in 1991), had crossed over to Azerbaijan on March 22, leaving weapons and ammunition behind.
On the next day, Azerbaijani websites violated international humanitarian law and released footage of Grigoryan’s “crossing over” and subsequent “interview.” The NKR Defense Army, however, had released a statement noting that the said footage was fully staged.
And on Wednesday, November 18, the Azerbaijani side handed the Armenian military serviceman over to NKR.
