Official Baku considers Armenian military, detained on the liberated Azerbaijani territories in December 2020, saboteurs, and not prisoners of war. President Ilham Aliyev said this during a meeting at a meeting of the Council of Heads of the CIS states, held on October 15 in online format.
“I would like to touch the question of the so-called” Armenian prisoners of war. “Azerbaijan handed over to Armenia of all prisoners of war, detained during the war, faster than Armenia transferred to us by Azerbaijani prisoners of war. … After signing a tripartite statement – at the end of November last year – sabotage A group of 62 people were abandoned from the Chirak region of Armenia to the rear of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan on the territory of our already liberated by our diversions, “said Ilham Aliyev.
According to him, this sabotage group was disarmed and detained by Azerbaijani military: “In accordance with international conventions, these saboteurs cannot be considered prisoners of war.”