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On 18 December, immediately after the meeting of Armenia’s Representative before the ECHR Yeghishe Kirakosyan with the relatives of 62 servicemen captured by the Azerbaijani forces near Khtsaberd, Nagorno-Karabakh, which took place in Gyumri, another request for applying interim measure against Azerbaijan on behalf of 53 servicemen was prepared and lodged by the Office of the Representative before the ECHR, along with supporting evidentiary materials.

Attorneys submitted an interim measure request for the remaining 9 servicemen, the Office of Armenia’s Representative before the ECHR reported on Tuesday.

On December 21, the ECHR granted the request submitted by the government of Armenia, asking the government of Azerbaijan to provide information on prisoners of war, their medical documents, and information on the terms of their exchange by 28 December.