Azerbaijani citizen crossed contact-line entering NKR territory

On January 23, 2012, at 3:30 pm of the local time, the NKR Defense Army servicemen on combat duty detained an Azerbaijani citizen, while passing to the Karabakh side in the north-east section of the contact-line. The detainee wore a uniform of the Azerbaijani armed forces’ serviceman, without any badges of rank. He had got a military card in the name of junior sergeant Akhundzade Mamedbagryu Talib-oglu, native of the AR Lenkoran region, born in 1990.

The corresponding structures of the NKR are specifying the circumstances of the incident.

The NKR authorities informed the ICRC and OSCE Offices, accredited in Stepanakert, about the incident, the state commission of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic on the issue of prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons reports.