MONITORING
00:00, July 6, 2006 | Press Release
On July 4, the Office of the OSCE Personal Representative Chairman in Office conducted monitorings of the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan contact-line in the region of the settlement of Marzily and in the north-west of the settlement of Kouropatkino.
From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring group was headed by the OSCE Personal Representative of Chairman in Office Andrzey Kasprzyk. Field assistants of the PRC-i-O Peter Key (Great Britain) and Gunter Folk (Germany) were in the monitoring group.
Monitorings passed in accordance with the planned schedule. However, during the monitoring in the northwest of the settlement of Kouropatkino the OSCE Office coordinator Imre Palatinus, who was monitoring from the Azerbaijani side informed from the second contact-line of AR army of a shot , which was heard in a kilometer left-wing from them. The OSCE mission from the NKR Defense Army did not hear the shot. As the Azerbaijani side broke the agreement and did not led out the OSCE monitoring group on the front line, but on the second line, which was situated in 1,5 km from the contact-line, the monitoring participants from the Karabakh side were justified to tell the OSCE mission that they heard a shot from the positions of Azerbaijani army. The representatives of the NKR Defense Army and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who accompanied the OSCE monitoring group, noted that contrary to the information spread by the Azerbaijani side on the burnings of the settlements being under the NKR security zone the monitoring participants did not fix such facts.
On July 5, the OSCE mission will hold monitorings in the settlements of Kouropatkino and Ashaghy Veisaly.
Let us remind of the fact that on June 15, 2006, the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed to the office of the OSCE Personal Representative Chairman-in -Office with a request to conduct a monitoring in bordering with Azerbaijan zone for the purpose of giving real estimate to the situation and make certain of the strained accusations of Baku on the alleged burnings of the adjoining settlements, situated under the control of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic territories.
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