Azerbaijan Hampers OSCE Full Monitoring

PanARMENIAN.Net - On September 12, in accordance with the agreement achieved beforehand with the NKR authorities, the OSCE Mission held a planned monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces' contact-line near the settlement of Seysulan of the NKR Martakert region, reports the Press Service of the NKR MFA. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission was led by Coordinator of the OSCE Office, Lieutenant Colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary) and Field Assistant of the OSCE PR C-i-O Irzhi Aberle (the Czech Republic). The monitoring passed in accordance with the planned schedule, no violations of the cease-fire regime were registered.



However, the Azerbaijani side once more did not lead the OSCE mission to its front line. In spite of the fact that the dividing line between the positions of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan on the area where the monitoring was conducted comprised less than a hundred meters, the Azerbaijani party led the OSCE Mission to a point at a distance of seven hundred meters from its front line, thus hampering the full visual inspection of the mentioned zone. From the Karabakh party, representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense accompanied the OSCE monitoring mission.