"We also recognize the uncertainty suffered by their families," International Committee of the Red Cross representative office in Baku said on the International Day of the Disappeared.

The report reads that the fate of people missing as a result of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict continued to be the major focus of the ICRC's work in Armenia and Azerbaijan. More than ten years after the ceasefire, thousands of families remain without news of their relatives. To help resolve this issue, the ICRC is continuing its efforts to foster dialogue between all parties, reminding them of their obligations under IHL. In 2005, the ICRC addressed a memorandum to the parties, outlining concrete proposals for addressing the issue.

"In February 2004, the ICRC presented the list of the missing to Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities and de-facto authorities of Nagorno Karabakh. This list contains 4,132 missing, 3.286 Azerbaijanis, 834 Armenians and 12 foreign nationals."

The ICRC proposes standardizing the collection and management of information on missing persons; cooperate on the recovery and identification of the remains of missing
Persons, step up support for the families of missing persons. Both the Armenian and the Azerbaijani authorities welcomed this initiative, and the ICRC is pursuing its dialogue with them on implementation of the proposals.