The State Committee for Family, Women, and Children Issues and Azerbaijan Human Rights Institute appealed to the influential and authoritative international organizations and peoples of the World with a call to assist in the issue on liberation of Azerbaijani lands from Armenian occupation. A joint announcement of the two above-mentioned organizations was announced, Trend reports. The announcement points out that international organizations should be more active, as well as make the Armenian authorities respect international laws.
A round table discussion organized by the above-mentioned organizations was devoted to this topic. Representatives of the Azerbaijan Justice Ministry, members of the Azerbaijani parliament, and leaders of the State Committee for Affairs with Captured, Kidnapped, and Missing Citizens took part in the arrangement. Last data about the number of captured and missing persons as a result of the Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan were presented.
According to Firuddin Sadikhov, Chairman of the State Committee for Affairs with Captured, Kidnapped, and Missing Citizens, the lists has been relieved in accordance with the new data obtained from those who returned from captivity, as well as from other sources. Since January, 2005, 1,535 new names have been added to the lists of the State Committee. Out of that number 190 ones are alive (they live and work in other countries, therefore, they have been excluded from the lists), all the rest killed as a result of war, and 145 names are repeated in the other lists, therefore they have been excluded from the lists of missing persons.
Mr. Sadikhov also said that the State Committee had reinforced works with international organizations engaged in the issues with captured and missing persons, particularly with the International Red Cross. However, the whole truth about the killed, captured, and missing, in Mr. Sadikhov's opinion, will be unveiled only after Azerbaijan occupied lands are liberated.
He also appealed to those Azerbaijani citizens who have any information about those who have become missing, were captured or killed as a result of the Karabakh war to contact 24 hours a day to the State Committee to share the information they have.
