On August 28, 2025, representatives of the "Karabakh Missing Families" Public Association held a meeting with the Secretariat of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, APA reports.
At the meeting, the Chairperson of the "Karabakh Missing Families" Public Association, Konul Behbudova, noted that 3,990 Azerbaijani citizens went missing as a result of Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan, 6 of whom went missing during the 44-day war in 2020. Among them were 71 children, 284 women, and 316 elderly people. Noting that the “Karabakh Missing Families” Public Union unites the families of the missing in Azerbaijan, he stressed the importance of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross increasing their efforts to clarify the fate of the Azerbaijani missing, and called on them to call on Armenia to provide information about the missing Azerbaijani citizens: “For more than 30 years, Armenia has not provided any information about this. In August 2023, we appealed to the UN Secretary-General, the President of the UN General Assembly, the President of the UN Human Rights Council, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and again asked that Armenia be called upon to disclose information about the fate of the missing persons and provide the Azerbaijani side with the locations of mass graves. We have not received a response yet. According to the requirements of international humanitarian law and its main source, the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, the right of families to receive information about persons missing during armed conflicts is unequivocally recognized. We want our rights to be respected."
