APA. In a letter addressed to the State Commission in November 2025, the Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), Kathryne Bomberger, stated that the Azerbaijani-language integrated version of the organization’s Information Management System would be provided to the State Commission, along with a roadmap for its initial implementation, Deputy Chief of the State Security Service, Sharafat Hasanov, said at the international conference titled “Modern Approaches and Strengthening Cooperation in Resolving the Issue of Missing Persons,” held within the framework of cooperation with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), APA reports.
He said that contacts between the ICMP and the State Commission date back to the years before the Second Karabakh War.
“The organization also expressed its readiness to provide Azerbaijan with the electronic database it had developed and to conduct training for specialists of the relevant state institutions in various areas, including database management and the preparation of relevant reports and protocols in accordance with international standards.
The presented Information Data Management System (IDMS) will enable all existing databases related to missing persons to be consolidated on a single platform and allow the relevant state institutions to enter and process data in real time. As a result, information will be available more quickly, allowing for prompt decision-making.
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In addition, the system will enable citizens of Azerbaijan and Armenia to confidentially provide information regarding missing persons, including burial sites. The information provided will be used solely for humanitarian purposes, and those providing information will bear no responsibility under any circumstances. The objective is to help clarify the fate of missing persons,” he said.
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