Families of missing Armenian servicemen to receive payments for two more months

YEREVAN, May 26. /ARKA/. The families of Armenian servicemen who went missing during the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 will continue receiving monthly payments, according to a decision approved by the government on Thursday.

The monthly allowances of 300 thousand drams will be paid until the missing are officially recognized as such by a court decision.  

At the end of April 2023, 56 servicemen whose whereabouts were unknown were considered still missing. Formally, payments to their families should have stopped, but it was decided to extend them for two more months.

On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and  phosphorus weapons.

After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. 

A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. -0-