On March 16 the OSCE mission had to conduct scheduled monitoring of the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line in the Askeran direction according to the earlier achieved agreement with the Nagorno Karabakh Republic authorities. However, the monitoring was wrecked by Azerbaijan, which didn’t lead the OSCE Mission members to the earlier agreed monitoring site.

Earlier, the Karabakh party three times urged to hold monitoring just in this section of the contact-line, where gross violations of the cease-fire regime by the Azerbaijani armed forced had repeatedly taken place, NKR MFA press office reported.