The OSCE Mission conducted Wednesday, March 2, a planned monitoring of the line of contact between the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan in the Askeran 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 Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office 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, with no ceasefire violations registered.

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