The OSCE Mission conducted Wednesday, March 18, planned monitoring of the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic and Azerbaijan in the Hadrut direction.

From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and his Field Assistants Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic) and Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine).

From the opposite side of the line of contact, the monitoring was conducted by amb. Kasprzyk’s Field Assistant Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), as well as by Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the CiO Simon Tiller (Great Britain) 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.

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