NKR Foreign Ministry addressed a letter to OSCE Chairman-in-Office

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno Karabakh Republic has addressed a letter to the OSCE CiO George Papandreou in connection with the December 20, 2009 incident on NKR- Azerbaijan Contact Line. The letter reads that on December 20, 2009, a woman was shot dead from the Azerbaijani positions in the Aghdam direction of the Contact Line.



"It is not the first time that intolerable conditions cause deportees residing in frontier areas to come over to the Nagorno Karabakh side," says the letter.



NKR Foreign Ministry called addressee's attention to the fact that the incident above resulted from Azerbaijan's violation of the cease-fire regime, while the servicemen of NKR Defense Army tried their utmost to prevent the elderly woman's tragic death.



A copy of the letter was sent to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Ambassadors Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States.
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