OSCE to monitor Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line May 19

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Mission on Tuesday, May 18 will conduct a monitoring of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of Martakert.

From the Karabakh positions, the monitoring will be conducted by staff member of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden) and Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the CiO Simon Tiller (Great Britain), as well as by representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG), Colonel Andrey Barashkin (Russia).

Karabakh authorities have expressed readiness to assist in conducting the monitoring and ensure the security of the OSCE Mission members.

President Serzh Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev participated in a Vienna-hosted meeting on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement on Monday.

At the meeting, the sides agreed to take steps to install mechanisms for monitoring and investigating ceasefire violations, increase the capacity of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office's team, also pledging to work towards a possible renewal of the negotiation process.