From front line to Holy Echmiadzin: Armenian Catholicos asked for Mediation
Mubariz Ibrahimov
27/9/2010
By Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
His Holiness Karekin II has urged President Serzh Sargsyan to return to Azerbaijan the body of slain Azeri soldier Mubariz Ibrahimov, a member of a team of soldiers who attacked Armenian forces in the village of Chaylu, Martakert, Nagorno-Karabakh in June.
According to a statement issued by the press service of the Holy See of Echmiadzin, in early September Patriarch Kiril I of Moscow and All Russia appealed to Karekin II on behalf of Leader of Muslims in the Caucasus, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pasha-Zade.
Ibrahimov was killed in a skirmish June 18, during which four Armenian troops were killed and four wounded.
The Echmiadzin statement issued September 27 was not conciliatory.
“The Armenian side will always be ready to discuss such petitions if Azerbaijan, in its turn, expresses readiness to discuss those problems by means of recovering an effective collaboration, remaining faithful to the demands of international humanitarian law,” the statement says.
