OSCE MONITORING INTERRUPTED BY SHOT FROM AZERI SIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net - September 20 the OSCE mission launched the planned monitoring of the contact line between the Armed Forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan near Karakhanbeily settlement of Fizuli region, as agreed beforehand, reported the NKR MFA Press Service. At the very beginning of the monitoring the Azeri party fired a shot, directed at the observation mission. This was registered by the OSCE representatives. By instructions of Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), who headed the mission at the Azeri side, the monitoring was interrupted due to security considerations. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission comprised Coordinator of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO, Lieutenant colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistants of the Personal Representative Peter Kii (UK), Harry Eronen (Finland) and Representative of the OSCE High Level Planning Group, Colonel Andrey Korotkov (Russia). From the Karabakh party, representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense accompanied the OSCE monitoring mission.