A single database of missing citizens is being created

Media Development Center Public Union (MIM PU) has completed the implementation of the project “Our missing: each of the 4000”. Azerbaijan The project supported by the State Support Agency for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan will be implemented from September 1 to October 31, 2022. execution done.

A presentation ceremony was held regarding the conclusion of the project. At the event, journalists NGO chairmen, experts participated.

Chairman of the Public Union Gabil Abbasoglu said that Azerbaijan about 4 thousand citizens military missing as a result of aggression, no statement or explanatory information has been provided by the aggressor so far regarding their fate, Azerbaijan and keeping the problem on the agenda at all stages of the negotiation process shows the urgency of the issue and the need to increase public attention to it.

“There was a need for clarifying materials about the specific circumstances and battles in which these people disappeared, or information that could shed even a little light on their future fate. Based on this need, we have decided to prepare journalistic investigations in which the fate of those people is described in detail based on the information of their relatives, witnesses, as well as official sources, translated into several languages ​​and distributed. We thank the Agency for State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations for supporting this idea.”

The chairman of the MIM PU said that the goal of the project is to try to obtain new and as accurate as possible information about our missing citizens, this information unit is to combine at the base.

“Right now Azerbaijan and Armenia diplomatic contacts on peace negotiations between In this regard, the topic of missing persons will be one of the prominent issues on the agenda at this stage. On the other hand, the investigation of the fate of about 4 thousand people requires quite a lot of time. Therefore, the project is expected to be sustainable,” said G. Abbasoglu.

The author of 6 journalistic materials prepared within the framework of the project, the well-known journalist Vusala Mammadova spoke about the meetings with the missing families and the spiritual difficulties these families have been experiencing for decades. He said that the investigations he conducted in the last few months showed the necessity of conducting serious work regarding the missing citizens. unit showed the importance of creating a base and raising this problem as a humanitarian problem on an international scale: “During the implementation of the project and conducting research Captured and I was in close contact with the Working Group of the State Commission on Missing and Hostaged Citizens. I am grateful to them for their useful cooperation and support to our work. The Working Group also believes that these investigations should be continued, and the problem of missing persons should be more clearly presented to the attention of the local community and international organizations.”

Speaking at the event military expert, chairman of the Public Union for Enlightening the Youth of Discharged Military, “Military The editor-in-chief of “And” newspaper Emin Hasanli said that in the last 30 years when our lands were under occupation, there was a serious need to have educational articles that reflect such historical truths and serve to promote patriotism: “The author of Vusala Mammadova”Captured camp”, “Memories of an Explorer”, “Smell of Gunpowder” projects, authored by veteran journalist Ray Karimoglu, played a significant role in this field. Young generation aggressor Armenia He was able to get accurate and real information from witnesses about the positives that his state has opened for our people. I believe that such propaganda materials played an important role in our Victory in the Patriotic War.”

Karabakh Ghazisi, the head of “gaziler.az” website Ray Kerimoglu is the first Karabakh He shared his memories about those who went missing during the war. He noted that the research conducted on the fate of those persons is very important and important for our war history.