NO ARSONS DETECTED BY OSCE MISSION IN NAGORNO KARABAKH SECURITY ZONE

Regnum, Russia
June 28 2006

On June 28, a recurrent monitoring was held at the contact line of the
Karabakh and Azeri armed forces’ contact line near the settlement of
Yusifjanly, reported the Nagorno Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Peter Kii (UK), Irzhi Aberle (Czech Republic), and
Hunter Folk (Germany) conducted the monitoring from the Karabakh side.

The monitoring was held according to the schedule. No ceasefire
violations were fixed. The representatives of the NKR Foreign and
Defense Ministries who accompanied the OSCE mission remarked that
despite the Azerbaijani party’s allegations of arsons in the Nagorno
Karabakh security zone, the monitoring participants did not reveal
any cases of arsons in the area.