Nonpartisan MP Taguhi Tovmasyan has exposed Azerbaijan’s false claims about Armenian prisoners. Below is the full text of her statement released on Friday.

"On March 6, 2025, several Azerbaijani media outlets circulated reports claiming that members of the Saeima (Parliament) of the Republic of Latvia had issued a statement in February regarding individuals captured as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including political and military prisoners such as Ruben Vardanyan — a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, businessman, and former State Minister of Artsakh.

According to those sources, the Latvian MPs allegedly portrayed Vardanyan as an “international threat,” a “Putin ally,” and called for harsh punishment, stressing what they claimed was “international condemnation.”

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Given that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia issued no official response to these claims — despite the extreme importance of the matter, particularly concerning prisoners of war — I, as a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and a member of the Armenia–Latvia Parliamentary Friendship Group, decided to personally verify the accuracy of the information presented.

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I contacted several Latvian MPs whose names appeared in the reports, and I received clear responses categorically refuting the claims published...

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