YEREVAN. – Despite the ceasefire agreement that was reached, the Azerbaijani side causes tension at its Line of Contact with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) at regular intervals, according to Zhoghovurd daily.

“The [NKR] DA [i.e. Defense Army] regularly informs the casualties’ data, but there is no information yet on the missing. As is known, the Armenian side has more than two dozen missing, but data have not been reported on the captives.

“We learned that there are captives from both the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides. We tried to find out from [the first Human Rights Defender of Armenia,] “Against Legal Arbitrariness” NGO [Executive] Director[, and public activist] Larisa Alaverdyan whether they have begun to deal with the matter of captives.

“In response to our question, Larisa Alaverdyan said the number of captives at this time is known, but they do not have the conditions to start the respective process. The thing is that the competent authorities need to provide the necessary data to the NGO, solely whereupon the matter will be processed,” Zhoghovurd wrote.