Baku / 18.10.20 / Turan: Three Armenian prisoners of war were able to contact their loved ones by phone. They were wounded and captured on the first day of the fighting in Karabakh on September 27.
On October 18, being in one of the hospitals in Baku, the secretary of the State Commission of Azerbaijan on prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons, Ismail Akhundov, visited the prisoners of war.
Armenian servicemen Areg Sargsyan and Narek Amirjanyan contacted their parents by phone.
Albert Mikaelyan could not remember his parents' phone number and he was given the opportunity to make a video appeal, the State Commission said in a statement.
The fact of the conversation was confirmed by the former Minister of Justice of Armenia Artak Zeynalyan. "The soldiers reported that everything is fine with them, and they are in hospital," he said on his Facebook page.
It should be noted that all three prisoners were wounded and they are being provided with the necessary assistance and treatment. -02B-
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