AZERI MOD DENIES INFORMATION ON SHOTS AND OSCE MONITORING

PanARMENIAN.Net - Monitoring was not held at the contact line of the Karabakh and Azeri forces on September 20, Azeri MOD spokesman Ramiz Melikov stated. In his words, the information saying that during the monitoring held by OSCE Special Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk the Azeri side violated the ceasefire "does not correspond to reality". "If the monitoring were held an observer would have taken part in it from the Azeri party. Spreading of such information is a recurrent provocation by our enemy. The Azeri MOD does not possess information regarding any monitoring of the contact line", Ramiz Melikov said, IA Regnum reports. At the same time Day.az Azeri news agency with a reference to the Azeri MOD informed that a monitoring was scheduled near the Karakhanbeily settlement of Fizuli region. As PanARMENIAN.Net came to know form the NKR MOD press office, September 20 the OSCE mission launched the planned monitoring. However at the very beginning the Azeri party fired a shot, directed at the observation mission. This was registered by the OSCE representatives. By instructions of Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), who headed the mission at the Azeri side, the monitoring was interrupted due to security considerations.