The Armenian army has expressed readiness to help military authorities in Baku locate and evacuate two Azerbaijani soldiers who reportedly went missing on Azerbaijan's border with Armenia earlier this week.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that the two sergeants, Musa Musayev and Tural Yolchuyev, may have accidentally strayed into Armenia's northern Tavush province from the Gazakh district in western Azerbaijan. It said it is investigating precise circumstances of their disappearance.
The Defense Ministry in Yerevan insisted afterwards, however, that no Azerbaijani soldiers crossed the heavily militarized Armenian border in the area.
"I can't confirm or deny that there was an attempt to cross the border because that is possible and there are such precedents," the ministry spokesman, Artsrun Hovannisian, told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). "But I can state for certain that we are holding no Azerbaijani servicemen."
Armenian News
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