AZERIS DECLINES PROPOSAL OF ARMENIAN SIDE TO SUBSTITUTE RADIO
MONITORING BY VISUAL OBSERVATION OF CONTACT LINE
YEREVAN, APRIL 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Within the framework
of the mandate of Andrej Kasprczik, the Personal Representative of the
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, radio monitoring of the contact line took
place near the village of Barkaber, in the Ijevan-Ghazakh part of the
Armenian-Azeri border, on April 6. At the place of holding the
monitoring, connection was established with the OSCE representatives
who are in the territory of Azerbaijan, headed by Andrej Kasprczik,
shots were fired by the Azerbaijani side during the observation, what
was fixed by the participants of the monitoring. Summing up results of
the monitoring, for increasing productivity of the actions, the
Armenian side proposed the OSCE representatives to substitute in
future the radio monitoring by visual observation of the contact line,
with direct participation of the commanders of bordering military
units, governors, communities representatives, but the Azerbaijani
side declined the proposal. As Colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian, the RA
Defence Minister’s Press Secretary informed Noyan Tapan, on the same
day, the radio monitoring was preceded by the OSCE representatives’,
Tavush Governor Armen Ghularian’s and military units commanders’
briefing at the Governor’s Office. A.Ghularian expressed anxiety on
the occasion of the fact that firings of the Ijevan-Noyemberian road
by the Azerbaijani side became friquent during the recent period.