Azerbaijani, Armenian officials meet in Shurnukh

  11 January 2021    Read: 812
 Azerbaijani, Armenian officials meet in Shurnukh

Chief of the Azerbaijani State Security Service, Colonel General Ali Naghiyev held meetings with his Armenian counterpart Armen Abazyan.

The meetings took place in a neutral zone on the part of the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border passing through the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Vorotan and Shurnukh settlements bordering Armenia’s Syunik province on January 8 and 10 respectively, the State Security Service told AzVision.az.

The meetings were also attended by Chief of the Azerbaijani State Border Service, Colonel General Elchin Guliyev and the leadership of Armenia’s border service.  

The parties discussed issues related to the joint investigation of incidents that occurred on the state borders, the security of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh and the territories liberated from occupation, the establishment of the places of buried bodies in the battle zones, and the exchange of prisoners, as well as the clarification of the fate of the missing and taken hostage in the First Karabakh War and the recent 44-day Patriotic War. 

They also underlined that the implementation of the trilateral statement of November 10 on a ceasefire serves the interests and security of both peoples, including the Azerbaijani and Armenian community of Karabakh.


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