Commission on Missing Persons presents results of its work 

ArmInfo. The Interdepartmental Commission on Captive, Detained and Missing Persons presented the  results of the work done on cases related to enforced disappearances and the steps taken at its regular meeting on October 25, 2024.

During the meeting, the Chairman of the Commission, Director of the  National Security Service of Armenia Armen Abazyan touched upon the  work carried out in general in the direction of clarifying the fate  of missing persons.

The proposals submitted on behalf of the parents were also discussed  at the meeting, and relevant decisions were made.

According to the latest data from the International Committee of the  Red Cross as of August 2024, about 1,000 persons are currently  considered missing on the Armenian side, with about 300 people being  considered as such after the latest escalation in the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone from autumn 2020 to autumn 2023.  Moreover, all the data was collected by the ICRC based on appeals  from the relatives of the missing persons themselves. The ICRC also  reported that among these 300 people there are several dozen appeals  concerning cases where the family did not agree with the DNA data  presented by the state.