YEREVAN.- Armenia once again confirmed its commitment to demands of the international humanitarian law, head of the working group at Commission for POWs, hostages and missing persons Armen Karapetyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As reported earlier, representatives of UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and International Organization for Migration transported Azerbaijani POW Roman Huseynov Novruzoglu to a third state. Armenia’s Defense Ministry said he refused to return to Azerbaijan preferring to find shelter in the third state.

No prisoners of war are left in Armenia. Meanwhile, three Armenian POWs and five members of the Armenian family are kept in Azerbaijani captivity.

Asked whether handing over of the Azerbaijani POW can affect fate of the Armenian captives, Karapetyan said that the international humanitarian law does not accept such notion as exchange or any equal action in relation to prisoners of war.