YEREVAN. – The statement by the Azerbaijani state commission representative is stupidity and nonsense, said Armen Kaprielyan, head of the working group of Armenia’s Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.

Kaprielyan noted this while commenting, at the request of Armenian News-NEWS.am, on the declaration by Eldar Samedov, Deputy Head of the Working Group of the Azerbaijan State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.

“Relevant agencies of the authorities of Armenia have sent to the International Committee of the Red Cross, in timely fashion, all data on all of the Azerbaijani prisoners of war who were returned to Azerbaijan, or transferred to third countries at their own will,” Kaprielyan stressed. “As for returning [Azerbaijani] prisoners in return for ransom, or recruiting them, such allegations by the Azerbaijani state commission representative do not correspond to reality, and are a result of the morbid imagination of Eldar Samedov.”

Head of the Armenian working group added that, at present, there are no Azerbaijani captives in Armenia.