Monitoring: Baku refuses to take OSCE mission members to frontlines

PanARMENIAN.Net - Baku did not lead the OSCE mission to its frontlines on Thursday, December 8 as the OSCE was conducting a planned monitoring of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the direction of Karabakh's Askeran region, north-east of Kengerli settlement.

From the Karabakh defense army positions, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistants to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria).

From the opposite side of the contact line, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Assistant to the CiO Personal Representative Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic), and staff member of the Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden).

The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule, no violation of the ceasefire was registered. The Azerbaijani side, however, failed to take the OSCE mission to its frontlines.

From the Karabakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by representatives of Foreign and Defense Ministries.