Politics
The Prime Minister commented on why the issue of prisoners of war is not included in the peace agreement.
In his address, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan touched upon the issue of prisoners held in Azerbaijan and the fact that this issue was not included in the peace agreement.
He noted that these negotiations began in the spring of 2022. "And we have made serious efforts to include this issue in the agreement, but as these efforts dragged on, we realized that including the issue of our compatriots held in captivity in Azerbaijan in the text of the agreement could be interpreted as meaning that their return is a matter after the signing and ratification of the agreement. And we were not and are not guided by that assumption," he said, adding that as a result, 58 of our compatriots have returned from captivity since the start of negotiations on the text of the peace agreement.
According to him, if the issue had been left to the peace agreement, these people might not have returned. "Now, tremendous diplomatic work is being done to resolve this issue as quickly as possible, the expression of which you recently saw and witnessed."
