NKR MFA STATEMENT

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
March 30 2006

Current March 29, in the course of a monitoring held by the OSCE
mission to the East of the populated locality of Seysulan of the NKR
Martakert region, the units of the Azeri Armed Forces violated the
case-fire, having fired the NKR Armed Forces. To guarantee security of
the participants of the monitoring the OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Personal
representative Andrzey Kasprzyk rendered a decision to suspend it.

Drawing the international community’s attention to the repeated
facts of violation of the Azeri-Karabakh contact line by the Azeri
military units that have recently become regular, the NKR Ministry
of Foreign Affairs finds it necessary to state that the actions are
direct consequence of the Azeri leadership’s incessant belligerent
rhetoric that has not been properly estimated by the concerned states
and organizations.

The mediators’ attempts to confer equal responsibility on all the
parties of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict for the case-fire violation
create prerequisites of impunity of Azerbaijan as the violations’
real culprit, which is absolutely inadmissible.

In this connection the MFA believes any silent support of the conflict
parties may result in upsetting equilibrium and destabilization in
the South Caucasus.