Despite the end of a month after the capture of the Azerbaijani soldier Firuz Faradzhev, his fate remains unclear, according to the military expert Uzeir Jafarov.
In an interview with Turan, he expressed the opinion that the soldier had been kidnapped from the post by Armenian scouts. Delaying his release suggests that they exert pressure on Faradzhev to dislodge the recognition of his "voluntary transition" to the Armenian side and a public speech against Azerbaijan.
Jafarov also expressed bewilderment with the slowness and passivity of the Red Cross. According to him, the Armenian side had to immediately allow the ICRC to the soldier and, depending on the will of the prisoner, to decide on his return to Azerbaijan, or transfer to a third country.
"Unfortunately, over the past month, no real steps in this direction were taken. Furthermore, the ICRC did not even give the prisoner's letter to his relatives," said Jafarov.
The expert also criticized the state bodies of Azerbaijan for inaction in this situation.
In turn, a spokesman for the ICRC Baku Office Shahla Gahramanova noted that as soon as new information on the Faradzhev case is obtained, the Red Cross will notify the media.
As to not transferring the letter to the soldier's family, she said that "letters sent through the Red Cross can only provide information for the family." In this case, the letter did not meet the criteria, she added. Our efforts to get comments from the Azerbaijan State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan failed.
Firuz Faradzhev was captured on the morning of July 26 at the Azerbaijani-Armenian border in Tovuz. Since then, he was only once visited by the ICRC Yerevan committee that passed the soldier letters from his parents and took a response letter from him.
Faradzhev was enlisted in the army in April of this year. After the call, he underwent a surgical operation and returned to the unit in the beginning of July, and then almost immediately was put on the post. Faradzhev served in one of the military units of the Tovuz region on the border with Armenia. Military prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Currently, Armenia has no other POWs except Faradzhev, while Azerbaijan has no Armenian POWs. -06B-
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