On November 23, RA Armed Forces servicemen detected the dead body of an Azerbaijani soldier at the buffer zone across the combat position at the southwestern sector of the Armenian state border.
According to the information received, the above mentioned soldier was an Azerbaijani army captain and battalion commander, who had fled after a crime that was committed in his military unit, the RA Ministry of Defense reports.
"The RA Ministry of Defense expresses its readiness to transfer the serviceman’s dead body to the Azerbaijani side, by the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross [(ICRC)]," the MOD statement reads.