20:38, 13 October, 2021
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan has released the Iranian truck drivers who had been arrested on Goris-Kapan road, ARMENPRESS reports Iranian Mehr agency informs.
The news agency noted that the release of the Iranian drivers preceded a telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Iran and Azerbaijan.
On the Vorotan section of the Goris-Kapan highway, the masked and armed Azerbaijani servicemen stopped the drivers of the Iranian trucks, checked the documents and demanded money, substantiating that “they have to pay a tax to enter the territory of their country.” They then arrested the Iranian drivers.
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