Monitoring on Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line cancelledJanuary 22, 2010 - 18:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Under an agreement concluded previously with NKR authorities, OSCE missions started Friday the regular monitoring on Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line.From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistants of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Kee (Great Britain), Vladimir Tchountoulov (Bulgaria) and Zhaslan Nurtazin (Kazakhstan). From the opposite side, the mission was headed by OSCE Office Coordinator, Lieutenant-Colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary) who, at the start of mission, issued an order to cancel the monitoring. The causes are being investigated. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. Armenia, Russia agree on repairing railway destroyed in floods Yerevan and Moscow have agreed to repair a flood-stricken railway in northern Armenia. |