Azerbaijan has sent three Armenian POWs to third country, Ashot Astabatsyan from Yerevan office of International Committee of Red Cross, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. However, he did not disclose the details.

Shahin Sailov, secretary of a working group at the Azerbaijani Commission on POWs, Missing Persons and Hostages, has announced that Armenian POWs Hrant Markosyan, Rafik Tevosyan and Vardan Sargsyan were sent to third country under their will and through mediation of the UN.

Today Armenia will hand in a POW, Anar Gajiyev, to the Azerbaijani side, Armen Kaprielyan, head of a working group at the Armenian Commission on POWs, Missing Persons and Hostages told Armenian News-NEWS.

At the moment three Armenian POWs - Ohan Harutyunyan, Gevorg Tovmasyan and Karen Harutyunyan - remain in Azerbaijan. There are also six civilians - Arthur Badalyan, and five members of one Armenian family: Yeghishe, Ruzanna, Alfred, Gayane, and Petros Gevorgyans.

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