OSCE mission visiting Azerbaijan’s occupied Lacin District
ANS TV, Baku
5 Feb 05
[Presenter] The OSCE factfinding mission to investigate the settlement
of Armenians in Azerbaijan’s occupied territories is visiting Lacin
today. They will return to Xankandi [Stepanakert] tomorrow and the
mission will complete its work.
[Aleksandr Grigoryan, head of the information department of the
separatist Nagornyy Karabakh regime, speaking in Russian by phone with
Azeri voice-over] They went to Lacin today. They will be in Stepanakert
tomorrow and leave Karabakh on Monday [7 February]. They are being
accompanied by two [OSCE Minsk Group] co-chairmen, [Russian
co-chairman Yuriy] Merzlyakov and [French co-chairman Bernard]
Fassier.
The mission is avoiding contacts with those who accompany them. They
are working very surreptitiously and do not want to contact anyone.
[Presenter] The mission visited Zangilan District yesterday. The head
of the information department of the separatist Nagornyy Karabakh
regime, Aleksandr Grigoryan, said that the factfinding mission is
being accompanied by a deputy foreign minister of Armenia,
interpreters and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs from France and
Russia, Bernard Fassier and Yuriy Merzlyakov.
[Passage omitted: quotes from the Armenian newspaper Azg]
On the whole, the monitoring will be completed in about a week. The
mission will spend one day in each of the seven districts. A report
will be drawn up in about 10 days and submitted to the permanent
council and OSCE members in Vienna.