Azerbaijan declines to take OSCE mission to frontline during monitoring

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Mission conducted Thursday, November 19, a planned monitoring of the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in Hadrut region, near Horadiz settlement.

From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), as well as the representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG), Colonel Andrey Barashkin (Russia).

From the opposite side of the line of contact, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic) and staff member of the Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden), as well as the representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG), Lieutenant-Colonel Dan Harvey (Ireland).

No ceasefire violations were registered during the monitoring; the Azerbaijani side, however, refused to take the OSCE mission to the frontline.

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