Veronika Zonabend, the wife of unjustly imprisoned Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, has turned to official and diplomatic channels to advance her initiative to send an international women's humanitarian delegation to Baku to visit the Armenian hostages held prisoner in Azerbaijan, in a statement published on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Zonabend said she has sent open letters to four senior officials whose engagement, she said, may be essential to organizing the visit and ensuring the safety of its participants. The letters are addressed to Azerbaijan's Human Rights Commissioner Sabina Aliyeva, International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and European Union High...