YEREVAN. – Azerbaijani citizens arrested in Nagorno-Karabakh are criminals and should bear responsibility for their actions, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said on Tuesday at the meeting in the French University in Armenia.

Earlier Azerbaijan has applied to the number of international agencies – UN, OSCE, the Council of Europe – with a demand to take moves to return two Azerbaijanis arrested in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Minister said the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is authorized to deal with the matter.

“However, as far as I know they are criminals and must be held accountable for their actions,” Ohanyan said.

An Azerbaijani diversion group was neutralized in Karvachar Region of NKR. Two members of the Azerbaijani group Dilgam Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev are in custody, the third member was killed while being detained.