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Armenian Armed Forces representatives once again highlighted during the captive hand-over talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani officers that Azerbaijan should not violate Geneva Convention, RA Armed Forces Headquarters representative, colonel Andranik Mkrtumyan told reporters today after the hand-over.

According to the convention, the captives are given rights which are regularly violated by Azerbaijan.

“The Azerbaijani National Security Service workers have even introduced themselves as the Red Cross representatives and tried to deceive and talk one of our captives into not returning to Armenia, but they did not manage to,” Mkrtumyan said.

He also said Azerbaijan bans meetings of the Armenian captives with the Red Cross representatives, as well as correspondence, while according to Geneva Convention, the captives can send 4 letters and receive as many during a month.

“The Armenian side allows all this. Since Rafik Hasanov cannot read and write, the Armenian side suggested having telephone contact with Baku and his parents, though, Azerbaijan did not agree. As you can see, Azerbaijan violates not only the rights of the Armenian captives but those of its own civilians as well,” the colonel said.

“Only a coward can fight against defenseless captives and abase them,” he said.

Panorama.am recalls that about an hour ago Azerbaijan's citizen Hasanov Rafik Rahman ogli was handed to Azerbaijani party in Yeraskhavan-Sadarak sector of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border line.