If Armenia is really committed to the rules of international humanitarian law, it should clarify the fate of more than 4 thousand Azerbaijani citizens who went missing as a result of Armenian aggression. This was stated by Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev, commenting for Turan the statement of the Deputy Defense Minister David Tonoyan on readiness to cooperate in the exchange of data on missing persons.
On February 4 Tonoyan at a meeting with the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Armenia Sarah Eppreht said that the Ministry of Defense of Armenia under the auspices of the Red Cross is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan in the issue of data exchange on the missing.
Turan’s attempt to get a comment on this proposal in the State Commission of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing failed.
The Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross registered information about 3 700 missing persons as a result of the Karabakh conflict.
As the Head of Public Relations of the ICRC Baku Ilaha Huseynova told Turan, according to their data, as a result of the conflict 4 500 people are considered missing. Of this figure, 800 people are from the Armenian side (400 registered in Yerevan office of the ICRC and about the same in Nagorno-Karabakh). -06D-
Politics
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On November 15, the Tbilisi City Court heard the merits of the complaint filed by the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, Afgan Sadygov, against the denial of political asylum in Georgia.
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On November 15, animal rights activist Kamran Mammadli was detained while staging a protest at the COP29 climate conference. Mammadli was protesting the shooting of street dogs in Azerbaijan. He raised a sign above his head that read: "Azerbaijani authorities are shooting dogs on the streets!" He also shouted: "Resign those who teach youth to be sycophants under the guise of volunteerism!"
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The United States has been working with Azerbaijan for a long time on energy issues and fossil fuel emissions, particularly focusing on technologies that reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and help transition to clean energy, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm stated at a press conference on November 15 during COP29 in Baku, in response to a question from Turan about how the U.S. can assist Azerbaijan in its transition to renewable and green energy.
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On November 15, the Baku Appeals Court heard the complaint filed by Ulvi Hasanli, the director of the Abzas Mediapublication, against Baku's pre-trial detention center -1 detention facility and the Penitentiary Service. The complaint concerns poor conditions of detention, inhumane treatment, and restrictions on Hasanli’s rights while in custody. Representatives from both institutions failed to appear in court.
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