June 19, 2006 - 19:51 AMT
International Working Group on Search for Missing Visiting Karabakh
The International Working Group (IWG) on the Search for the Missing People, Hostages and POWs in the Karabakh conflict zone arrived in Nagorno Karabakh on a two-day working visit. The IWG members met with the NKR Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosyan, the leadership of the NKR State Committee on Missing People and Hostages, heads of the Stepanakert Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, IWG coordinator in NKR Albert Voskanian informed.

In the course of the meetings the issues referring to activation of search for the missing and burial places were discussed. The requests of the state commissions on missing persons and hostages of Nagorno Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan were considered as well. June 20 the IWG will depart for Yerevan to proceed with the work, reported De Facto news agency.