Armenian, Azerbaijani Officials Discuss Prisoners Exchange

Today, the head of the Armenian National Security Service, Armen Abazyan met with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ali Nagiyev to discuss the prisoners exchange and the search for missing persons.

The press office of the Armenian National Security Service revealed that the head of the Armenian National Security Service, Abazyan, met his Azerbaijani counterpart, Nagiyev, in the neutral border area near the village of Yrasakh, in the Ararat border district with Nakhchivan.

According to the statement, issues of prisoner exchange and the search for missing persons were discussed during the meeting.

Armenia and Azerbaijan reached a ceasefire agreement sponsored by Russia in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region, after battles that lasted for a month and half that led to Baku's control over large parts of the region.

Russia and Turkey reached after talks between them to establish a ceasefire monitoring center in "Karabakh" supervised by the forces of the two countries.

The ceasefire declaration stipulates that the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces will stop at their current locations, and the Russian peacekeepers will be deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and the corridor connecting the Armenian lands and Karabakh.

The agreement also includes lifting restrictions on movement, transit and the exchange of prisoners between the two parties to the conflict, and the return of the displaced to Karabakh, under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.