Azeri armed forces bring fire upon OSCE mission

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Azeri armed forces bring fire upon OSCE mission
28.02.2009 12:22 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On February 26, the OSCE mission scheduled a regular
monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani
armed forces near Horadiz settlement of Fizouli region.

However, from the very beginning of the monitoring a single-round
firing was directed at the mission consisting of coordinator of the
OSCE office Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistant of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Irzhi Aberle (Czech
Republic), who conducted the monitoring from the positions of the NKR
Defense Army, and the representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defense
and Foreign Affairs, accompanying them.

Then, burst of machine-gun fire was opened from the Azerbaijani
positions that passed to the left from the monitoring
group. Afterwards, another single shot was made in the direction of
the mission.

Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk, who headed the monitoring group from the Azerbaijani
territory ordered to stop the monitoring.

Besides, the Azerbaijani side did not lead the OSCE mission to the
arranged point of its frontline once again, NKR MFA press service
reported.