Ilham Aliyev: Azerbaijan has transferred all POWs after end of hostilities in Karabakh

Azerbaijan shows goodwill in matters related to humanitarian issues, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said when receiving the delegation headed by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on May 10, Report informs, citing Azertag.

“I must say that since the end of hostilities, we have transferred all the prisoners of war we had held as a result of the war. Since the end of hostilities, during these six months, we, together with peacekeepers and representatives of the Armenian side, have found and handed over to the Armenian side about 1,600 bodies of Armenian servicemen in the territory liberated from the occupation.

For comparison, I will say that after the first Karabakh war, during all the years of occupation, not a single body of a missing Azerbaijani serviceman was handed over to us by the Armenian side, and we have about 4,000 of them,” the head of state said.