No ceasefire violations registered in Karabakh during OSCE monitoring

July 15, 2016 - 12:53 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Mission on Friday, July 15 conducted a planned monitoring of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, in the direction of Hadrut near Horadiz settlement.

From the positions of the Karabakh Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and his Field Assistant Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), staff member of the Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden), as well as by Head of the OSCE High Level Planning Group Colonel Hans Lampalzer (Austria).

From the opposite side of the line of contact, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic) 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 Lieutenant-Colonel Dan Harvey (Ireland).

The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule. No ceasefire violation was registered.

From the Karabakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by representatives of Foreign and Defense Ministries.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out as result of the ethnic cleansing launched by the Azeri authorities in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994 (when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions are now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.