Noyan Tapan News Agency
Sept 23 2005

SHOT FIRED FROM AZERBAIJANI SIDE IN DIRECTION OF OBSERVATION MISSION
OF CONTACT LINE OF NKR AND AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES

STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The OSCE mission held a plan
observation of the contact line of the Armed Forces of Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan near the settlement of Gharakhanbeyli, Fizulu
region, on September 20.

Just at the beginning of the observation, a shot was fired from the
Azerbaijani side in the direction of the observation mission. The
shot was fixed by the OSCE representatives. The observation was
stopped for security reasons by an instruction of Andrej Kasprczik,
the head of the observation from the Azerbaijani side, the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the NKR Foreing Ministry’s Information
and Analytical Department, Leautenant-Colonel Imre Palatinus
(Hungary), the Office Coordinator of the Personal Representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Peter Kea (Great Britain) and Harry
Eronen (Finland) Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Colonel Andrey Korotkov (Russia), a
representative of the OSCE high level planning group were in the
group implementing observation from positions of the NKR Defence
Army.

>From the Karabakh side the observation mission was accompanied by
representatives of the NKR Defence Ministry and the NKR Foreign
Affairs Ministry.