January 12, 2017 - 13:38 AMT
OSCE Mission registers no ceasefire violation on Karabakh frontline

The OSCE Mission on Thursday, January 12 conducted a planned monitoring of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the direction of the Martuni region, north-east of Ashaghy Veysali settlement.

From the Karabakh Defense Army positions, the monitoring was conducted by staff member of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden) and head of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG) Colonel Hans Lampalzer (Austria).

From the opposite side of the line of contact, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Assistant to the CiO Personal Representative Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), and representative of the OSCE HLPG Major Cavit Elyas (Turkey).

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 Foreign and Defense ministries.