March 3, 2005 - 17:59 AMT
AZERI CAPTIVES TO BE EXCHANGED FOR ARMENIAN ONES
Three Azeri servicemen Khikmet Tagiyev, Kheyal Abdulayev and Ruslan Bashirov, taken captive February 15 by Nagorno Karabakh servicemen, will be not merely passed to Azerbaijan, but exchanged for captive Armenians, RFE/RL reported referring to the Nagorno Karabakh State
Commission for Captives, the Missing and Hostages. According to the same report, the state of health of the Azeri captives is normal. It should be reminded that February 15 the servicemen of the fifth defense territory of
Nagorno Karabakh discovered and took captive three Azeri servicemen, who had trespassed the border.