Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Japan is working to confirm whether any Azerbaijani nationals were among the crew members of the fishing vessel that previously went missing in the Sea of Japan, the country’s Foreign Ministry told Trend Jan. 25.

The ministry said additional information on the issue will be given at a later time.

The mentioned vessel went missing with 21 people on board, according to earlier reports by RIA Novosti. The report said the vessel did not contact the shore after the emergency signal went off.

As a source in the sea structures told RIA Novosti, there were nine residents of Sakhalin and one resident of Primorye (federal subject of Russia) on the missing vessel.

"The crew included the nationals of the Sakhalin region, Primorsky Krai, Chelyabinsk region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Orenburg, Zaporozhye, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Sverdlovsk region,” added the source.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations told Trend that there is no information about the nationality of those who were on board the vessel.

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