"As a result of the joint measures implemented after the Tripartite Statement of November 10, 2020, the corpses of 1,713 Armenian servicemen were found, removed from the area and handed over to the other side."

According to APA, this was done today at the Conference on "Identification of Missing Persons - Humanitarian Approach" dedicated to the International Day of the Missing on August 30, organized by the State Commission for Captives and Missing and Hostage Citizens and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Ismayil Akhundov, secretary of the State Commission on the Fallen and Hostage Citizens, Head of the Working Group, said.

Ismayil Akhundov said that according to the information of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 776 people of Armenian descent were considered missing during the First Karabakh War, and 345 people of Armenian descent during the Second Karabakh War. 509 people were handed over.

At the same time, the corpses of dozens of people from both sides who died on the line of confrontation and died in captivity were handed over to the parties through the mediation of the ICRC.

In general, more than 650 humanitarian processes were carried out with the participation of the ICRC.

After the Tripartite Declaration signed after the Patriotic War, the other side handed over 25 Azerbaijani citizens (19 soldiers, 6 civilians) to the Republic of Azerbaijan.

5 of them (1 military, 4 civilians) were detained before September 27, 2020.

The Republic of Azerbaijan released 159 people (118 prisoners, 41 civilians, including 5 women) of Armenian origin.

6 of them (4 military, 2 civilians) were detained before September 27, 2020.

Adhering to its obligations arising from the norms of international humanitarian law, the Republic of Azerbaijan interned captured Armenian servicemen and civilians evacuated from the war zone, provided them with conditions of detention, decent treatment, food and water supply, and treatment rights for the wounded.

The State Commission regularly submitted information about captured Armenian servicemen and detained persons to the ICRC, and created comprehensive conditions for the institution's employees to visit them.

Also, prisoners and detained persons write letters to their relatives, send video messages,