Baku returns corps of Armenian saboteur to Yerevan

/AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijan returned the dead body of Karen Petrosyan, who detained for illegal entry in the Azerbaijani territory, the Armenian side.

The State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan announced about this last week.

Petrosyan, a 33-year old member of Armenian sabotage group, was detained in the Azerbaijani territory on August 7, 2014. He suddenly died of heart failure the next day in detention.

The state commission said respecting the international humanitarian law, Azerbaijan handed over the corps to the Armenian side.

The handover took place in the village of Bala Jafarli of Azerbaijan's Gazakh region.

The process was carried out by the State Commission and the Defense Ministry through the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Baku has recently handed over several Armenian citizens to their country, and to the third country over their will.

However, despite the call of Azerbaijani government and the international organizations, Armenia doesn't return the Azerbaijani hostages, who were detained by Armenian forces in the occupied territories in last July.

On July 11, Armenian Special Forces killed Azerbaijani citizen Hasan Hasanov and took hostage Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilgam Asgarov in the Shaplar village of the occupied Kelbajar region. The civilians were visiting the graves of their relatives.

Guliyev and Asgarov are allegedly accused of murdering Armenian teenager among other charges.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.