YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS: The representatives of the Baku Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with the Armenian citizen, taken captive in Azerbaijan Sargis Ananyan. The representative of the Yerevan Red Cross Community Hasmik Galstyan informed Armenpress about it. “On September 16 they met and exchanged family letters”, - she said.  

The representatives of the Baku Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the first time met with the Armenian citizen on September 9, the 13^th day of the captivity.

On September 1 the Azerbaijani media informed about an Armenian captive. Sargis Ananyan, born in 1961, is a resident of Noyemberyan town. He crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and appeared in Ghazakh Village. The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has posted Sargis Ananyan’s photo and a video. The Azerbaijani side insists that Ananyan has crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on August 26. The neighbors of the Armenian captive in Noyemberyan told Armenpress that Sargis lived alone. According to the Azerbaijani media, Sargis Ananyan has got serious health problems. The Azerbaijani side again violated the clauses of the Geneva Convention, which relate to the citizens, who crossed the border accidentally and taken hostage and which envisage that no pressure and no public broadcast should be imposed on them. The Azerbaijani Anspress Agency, again ignoring the clauses of the Geneva Convention, interviewed the Armenian captive Sargis Ananyan, who crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and has been transferred to the hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan and published the video of the interview.