AZERBAIJANI SIDE DID NOT LEAD OSCE MISSION TO FRONTLINES DURING MONITORING
January 15, 2014 | 15:17
STEPANAKERT. – On January 15, in accordance with the arrangement
reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the OSCE
Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between
the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the northern
direction of the Kuropatkino settlement of the NKR Martuni region.
>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was
conducted by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria) and Jiri Aberle
(Czech Republic), as well as by staff member of the Office Peter
Svedberg.
>From the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by
Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and William Pryor
(Great Britain).
The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule. No
violation of the cease-fire regime was registered. However, the
Azerbaijani side did not lead the OSCE mission to its front-lines.
>From the Karabakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by
representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
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