ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMED ARMENIAN SOLDIER CAPTURED BY AZERIS

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Defense Ministry of Armenia has confirmed the reports that the Azeri party has taken captive an Armenian soldier, who serves in one of the units of Noyemberian region of Armenia, Arminfo agency reported. In the words of Press Secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry Seyran Shahsuvarian everything is being done to return the serviceman at present. "The Minister deals with the issue in person," he added. It should be reminded that yesterday the International Working Group on Search for the Missing, Hostages and Release of Captives in the Karabakh conflict zone released a statement on Armenian soldier T. Z. (born in 1985) being captured April 1 in Noyemberian region. Seyran Shahsuvarian also reported the circumstances of the capture of the Armenian soldier. In his words, the serviceman due to a willfully fleeing from the unit, the soldier lost his way. When searching for him it turned out that he went in a wrong direction and found himself captured. The soldier not being armed evidences he had fled. "Thus, the Azeri version that a diversion group was acting is false," Shahsuvarian emphasized.