Yerevan: Azerbaijan does not allow OSCE monitoring in Nakhijevan direction

Emil Lazarian 2018
Arminfo, Armenia
Aug 1 2018
Yerevan: Azerbaijan does not allow OSCE monitoring in Nakhijevan direction

Yerevan July 31

Tatevik Shahunyan. Azerbaijan does not allow organizing OSCE monitoring in Nakhijevan direction, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tigran Balayan stated this at a press conference.

At the same time he stressed that the Armenian side attaches importance to conducting OSCE monitoring, including in the Nakhijevan direction, since such monitorings are a deterrent mechanism. Yerevan appealed to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk with a request to conduct monitoring, but Baku refused to conduct monitoring in the Nakhijevan direction,” Balayan said.

Balayan also complained that for more than two weeks Baku has not allowed representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross to meet captured RA citizen Karen Ghazaryan, who suffers from a psychological disorder. “It has been already two weeks there is no information about Karen Ghazaryan, a citizen of Armenia who was captured by Azerbaijani side, Azerbaijan harshly violates the Geneva Conventions, preventing the ICRC representatives from visiting the captive,” Balayan said.

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