Azerbaijan Appeals To ICRC With Hostage Exchange Proposal

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 22



By Elchin Mehdiyev - Trend:



The Azerbaijani governments focuses on the issue of returning Azerbaijanis - Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev, taken hostage by the Armenians in the occupied Kalbajar region, as well as the corpse of murdered Hasan Hasanov, chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov told media Aug. 22.



"Azerbaijan appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with a proposal to exchange the hostages," he said.



He stressed that Azerbaijan offers Armenia to exchange an Armenian family consisting of five persons, as well as the corpse of the Armenian saboteur, who died of heart failure, for Azerbaijanis, taken hostage in the occupied Kalbajar region, and Hasan Hasanov's corpse.