OSCE Mission conducts monitoring of Karabakh-Azeri contact line![]() February 4, 2016 - 15:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Mission conducted Thursday, February 4, a planned monitoring of the line of contact between the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan in the southeastern direction of Kuropatkino settlement in Karabakh’s Martuni region. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, his Field Assistants Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), and the representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG) Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Nepokritikh (Russia). From the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic), Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the CiO Simon Tiller (Great Britain), staff member of the Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden), and the representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG) Colonel Tuncay Sevim (Turkey). The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, have arrived in Washington. The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Partner news |