February 9, speaking in Parliament, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that over the past year, the remains of 108 citizens missing in the first Karabakh war were transferred to Azerbaijan.
The head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Leila Abdullayev answered the Prime Minister of Armenia.
“I wonder why Armenia was waiting for 30 years to provide information about about 4,000 Azerbaijanis missing in the first Armenian-Azerbaijan war. Although the Government of Armenia has not yet made any statements on this matter, among the reasons for the transfer of the remains after 30 years Only 108 of the thousands of Azerbaijanis missing, of course, is the discovery of mass burials of Azerbaijanis on liberated territories and the publication of these facts for the international community, “Abdullayev said.
According to the head of the press service, after a 44-day war in the fall of 2020, Azerbaijan without any oncoming conditions, guided by the principles of humanism, transferred to Armenia to the remains of over 1,700 Armenian soldiers: “The question of missing, is a priority For Azerbaijan, and we will not allow Armenia who is directly responsible for determining the location of mass graves, silent for another 30 years about the fate of more than 3,700 people. “