YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS: Nagorno Karabakh faces over 700 missing people since Artsakh liberation. At the briefing with Armenpress reporter NKR State Committee Chairman on prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons Victor Kocharyan stated that more than 400 of them are civilians, military servicemen make 200. The interlocutor stressed that there are no prisoners of war in the area of NKR.

 The number of the missing people is being checked, as the number of missing people from Shahumyan is not yet defined. The data of the Commission and Red Cross( RCIC) differ, as the it happens that the relatives of the missing people sometimes prefer applying  to the Court than to the Commission and Committee. 

Currently the works are done to determine the exact number of missing people from Shahumyan district, which is not an easy task to carry: the former Shahumnyan residents are displaced and dispersed in CIS countries. According to the info of ‘’Shahumyan-Getashen" union the number of the missing people is about 500-700. 

Pursuant to the data of Red Cross International Committee the overall number of the missing people from both Armenian and Azerbaijan make 4000-5000. Operating from 1992, RCIC has contributed to the process of repatriation or transfer of captured people. The committee helped about 700 people to return to Armenia, who as prisoners were kept in Azerbaijan.

 A number of events are scheduled to be held in Armenia and Azerbaijan on the memorial day of missing people on June 29. A visit is scheduled  to Erablur , military pantheon, memorial event at Yerevan Chamber music hall by under the leadership of the General Staff  and Armed Forces headquarters Ministry of Defense, MD Public Council adjunct body  on hostages and missing persons, Artsakh war veterans and NGO representatives.

 In Artsakh  the state figures, military servicemen headed by the President  will  lay flowers on ’’ unknown soldiers' memorial’’ . The Day of Unknown Soldier memory is celebrated since 2000.