The Director of the NSS Has Taken a List of 10 Prisoners of War to Baku

The Director of the National Security Service (NSS) has taken a list of 10 prisoners of war to Baku, whom the Armenian side wishes to return home within the framework of normalizing bilateral relations, reports Hraparak. The names on the list include: Erik Ghazaryan, Levon Balayan, Davit Alaverdyan, Melikset Pashayan, Garik Martirosyan, Vasili Beglaryan, Lyudvig Mkrtchyan, Alyosha Khosrovyan, Gurgan Stepanyan, and Madat Babayan.

During this visit, Andranik Simonyan did not mention the liberation and return of the 8 state officials who are being tried and tortured in Baku.

The Azerbaijani side has put forward a counter-list and conditions, demanding the release of two citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic, Muhrab Muhammad al-Shkhri and Youssef Alabet al-Haji, who participated as mercenaries in the 44-day war, committed numerous killings against Armenian civilians, and were sentenced to life imprisonment in Armenia in 2021. According to the newspaper’s sources, Andranik Simonyan has agreed to comply with Azerbaijan's demands.