OSCE: Fires in the territories around Nagorno Karabakh caused by weather conditions
00:00, August 22, 2006 | Armed Forces
The fires in the territories around Nagorno Karabakh have been caused by weather conditions, says the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. He says that the bigger scale of fires this year is due to very early heat. At the same time, Kasprzyk refrains from making conclusions.
He says that he is not an investigator. Besides, he did not see anybody and could not find any fact revealing the cause of the fires. He says that there have been fires before though they were not as big.
“I think everybody understands that fires are caused by different things. It will be enough for you to watch the latest news: fires in California, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland, Spain, Portugal,” says Kasprzyk.
He says that the Azeri side has already asked the OSCE CIO to set experts to find out the cause of the fires, reports ArmInfo.
To remind, on June 15, 2006 the Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry urged the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CIO to hold a monitoring of the contact line with Azerbaijan in order to give a real assessment of the situation and to see that Azerbaijan’s charges of arson are just allegations. On July 3-5 the Personal Representative of the OSCE CIO Andrzej Kasprzyk monitored the border zone between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, drafted a seven-page report and submitted it to OSCE CIO Karel de Gucht, who, in his turn, presented the report to the Azeri FM.
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13:35 08/22/2006