{"id":1279,"date":"2025-06-13T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2025-06-13T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:56:26","slug":"armenia-works-intensively-to-achieve-release-of-pows-held-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Armenia works intensively to achieve release of POWs held in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Armenia is conducting intensive work to achieve the release of the Armenian POWs held in Azerbaijan, Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNaturally, not just now, we\u2019ve been working intensively in the direction of achieving the release of the prisoners since the end of the 2020 war,\u201d he said at the APRI 2025 forum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe often don\u2019t talk about this in public, but large-scale work is done in this direction. Often, public discussions can harm such processes,\u201d Grigoryan warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe release of all prisoners is a daily agenda item for the government. We will continue to work, and we hope that they will return to Armenia as soon as possible,\u201d Grigoryan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The POWs and other detainees unlawfully held in Azerbaijan include former Nagorno-Karabakh politicians, ex-presidents Arayik Harutyunyan, Bako Sahakyan, Arkady Ghukasyan, former State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, and others, who are facing a sham trial on fabricated charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armenpress.am\/en\/article\/1222205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Armenpress<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia is conducting intensive work to achieve the release of the Armenian POWs held in Azerbaijan, Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan has said. \u201cNaturally, not just now, we\u2019ve been working intensively in the direction of achieving the release of the prisoners since the end of the 2020 war,\u201d he said at the APRI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-english","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}