YEREVAN. – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is conducting a dialogue with the parties involved, to get permission to visit Zaven Karapetyan, who is kept in Azerbaijan. 

Zara Amatuni, the communications officer of the ICRC Yerevan Office in Armenia’s capital city, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

She noted this when asked whether the representation of the Red Cross in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, received a notification from Azerbaijani authorities, with respect to Armenian citizen Zaven Karapetyan being kept in Azerbaijan.  

Amatuni noted that under the international law, visits to such persons—persons related to the conflict—are within the framework of the Red Cross mandate.

As reported earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan on Wednesday informed about the “capture” Tuesday of an Armenian Armed Forces’ serviceman, on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

Later, the ministry released a video of the interrogation of this man, who was wearing Turkish-made body armor. The man stated that he was Zaven Karapetyan, a resident of Dovegh village nearby Noyemberyan town in Tavush Province of Armenia.

But such a person had never lived in this village. It was found out, however, such a person did live in Vanadzor town.

Karapetyan, who grew up in an orphanage, has mental issues. And those that know him had no information on him over the past several years.