Pan Armenian News

OSCE MONITORING INTERRUPTED BY SHOT FROM AZERI SIDE

20.09.2005 05:39

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 20 the OSCE mission launched the planned
monitoring of the contact line between the Armed Forces of Nagorno Karabakh
and Azerbaijan near Karakhanbeily settlement of Fizuli region, as agreed
beforehand, reported the NKR MFA Press Service. At the very beginning of the
monitoring the Azeri party fired a shot, directed at the observation
mission. This was registered by the OSCE representatives. By instructions of
Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office (CiO), who headed the mission at the Azeri side, the
monitoring was interrupted due to security considerations. From the
positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission comprised
Coordinator of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO,
Lieutenant colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistants of the
Personal Representative Peter Kii (UK), Harry Eronen (Finland) and
Representative of the OSCE High Level Planning Group, Colonel Andrey
Korotkov (Russia). From the Karabakh party, representatives of the NKR
Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense accompanied the OSCE monitoring
mission.