FIRE DISCOVERED IN ONE OF SECTIONS OF NEUTRAL REGION DURING MONITORING OF NKR AND AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES CONTACT-LINE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 4 2006

STEPANAKERT, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On July 3, the
Office of the OSCE Personal Representative Chairman-in-Office held
monitorings of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan armed forces’
contact-line in Aghdam-Gindarkh direction and in the settlement
of Novrouzlou.

>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission
was led by Personal Representative of the OSCE PR C-i-O Andrzey
Kasprzyk. Field Assistants of the OSCE PR C-i-O Peter Key (Great
Britain), Irzhi Aberle (Czechia) and Gunter Folk (Germany) were in
the group.

The monitoring passed in accordance with the planned schedule, however
Azerbaijani side as before did not lead out the OSCE mission to the
front line. In the course of the monitorings no violations of the
cease-fire regime were fixed.

According to the NKR Foreign Ministry Press Service, the
representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense,
who accompanied the OSCE monitoring mission, noted that contrary to the
Azerbaijani side’s allegations on the burnings of the populated areas,
which were in the NKR security zone, the monitoring participants did
not find such facts. In one of the sections of neutral region a fire
was discovered, which fanned by wind was approaching the territory that
was under the NKR control, and it confirms the version on burnings
from Azerbaijani soldiers being on military duty, which had been
published earlier.

The monitorings of different sections of contact-line will be conducted
also on July 4-5.