Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reiterated on Thursday that his administration is carrying out daily work to secure the release of the remaining Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.

“When will there be results? When there are results, we will see them. Why am I saying this? Not because I have any information that I do not want to share, but because my experience shows that until someone crosses the border and appears on the territory of Armenia, it is, at the very least, not serious to announce such a possibility,” the prime minister said at a press briefing.

The 19 remaining Armenian captives and detainees in Azerbaijan include former political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, such as former presidents Arayik Harutyunyan, Bako Sahakyan, and Arkady Ghukasyan; former Foreign Minister Davit Babayan; former Defense Minister Levon Mnatsakanyan; and former State Minister Ruben Vardanyan.

The Armenian government has repeatedly stated that it continues efforts to secure the release of the captives and other detainees.

Earlier in February, an Azerbaijani military court sentenced several former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh to life imprisonment on war-crime-related charges, which are widely seen as fabricated and part of a sham trial.