THIRD MOMNITORING IN AREA OF VILLAGE OF BERKABER, TAVUSH REGION,
ARMENIA AND POPULATED AREA MIZAMLU, GAZAKH REGION, AZERBAIJAN
YEREVAN, JULY 29. ARMINFO. A regular monitoring of OSCE on the
contact-line of Armenian and Azerbaijani Armed Forces was in the area
of the village of Berkaber, Tavush region, Armenia and a populated
area Mizamlu, Gazakh region, Azerbaijan. It is already the third
monitoring in this section.
The press-service of the Armenian Defense Ministry told ARMINFO that
the section is again monitored because of the recent aggravation of
tension there. According to the source, Personal Representative of
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrjey Kasprzyk and his field assistants
Kenneth Picls (Great Britain) and Urgen Schmidt (Germany) monitored on
the Armenian party, his other field assistants Emre Palatinus
(Hungary) and Miroslav Vimetal (Czechia) on the Azerbaijani party.
In the course of the monitoring, the OSCE groups accompanied with
representatives of the Defense and Foreign Ministries of the two
states approached the border-line from the two sides on a visual
distance. As a result, the Armenian party confirmed the statement made
yet during the last monitoring concerning the necessity for direct
contracts under patronage of OSCE. Ambassador Kasprzyk welcomed the
proposal and expressed hope for the OSCE to contribute to such a
meeting in the near future. OSCE representative were informed that
unlike the previous monitoring, this time the situation on the
boundary was rather calm.