March 11, 2013 - 18:22 AMT
OSCE Mission to monitor NKR-Azeri contact line

On March 14, in accordance with the agreement previously reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic, the OSCE mission will conduct planned monitoring of the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan near the settlement of Talish, Martakert region, NKR.

In the NKR territory, the monitoring will be conducted by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic) and Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine), as well as OSCE High-Level Planning Group representative Pavlo Shamaev.

From the opposite side, the monitoring will be headed by the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The NKR authorities expressed readiness to assist in conducting the monitoring and to ensure the security of the OSCE mission members.

From the Karabakh side, the monitoring mission will be accompanied by representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the NKR MFA press service reported.