BAKU. Feb 2 (Interfax) - Baku is doing its best to achieve the release of Azerbaijani citizen Elnur Huseynzade, who has been captured in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing People said in a report.
"The State Commission is taking every necessary measure to free Azerbaijani citizen Elnur Huseynzade detained by the Armenian side near the village of Talysh," the report said.
Baku has informed relevant international organizations that it will be seeking the release of the Azerbaijani citizen, it said.
The Defense Ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) said on Wednesday that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces' saboteurs had attempted an incursion.
Armenian troops deterred the incursion and "took prisoner an Azerbaijani serviceman, Elnur Huseynzade born in the city of Barda in 1995," it said.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Thursday that the captured Huseynzade did not belong to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.
"As for Elnur Huseynzade, he systematically breached military discipline in the period of his service until he was demobilized from the Azerbaijani Armed Forces," a ministry spokesman told Interfax.
Senor Hasratian, press secretary of the NKR defense minister, said, for his part, that Huseynzade was wearing military uniform at the moment he was captured.
"It is illogical and unclear how a demobilized serviceman could penetrate the buffer zone wearing military uniform and carrying a weapon, moreover that he was trying to accomplish a special operation together with a sabotage team and was eventually captured by the Armenians," Hasratian said.