MONITORING OF FRONTLINE BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES HELD WITHOUT BREAK OF CEASEFIRE REGIME

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 4 2006

STEPANAKERT, July 4. /ARKA/. Another monitoring of the frontline
between Armenian and Azerbaijani Armed Forces on Aghdam-Hindarkh road
and in the vicinity of Novruzlu settlement passed without break of
the ceasefire regime.

The Press Service of the NKR Foreign Ministry reports that, the
observations group from the side of the NKR Armed Forces was led
by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-office Anjey
Kaspshik. The group included Kaspshik’s field assistants from Great
Britain and Germany.

The monitoring was held according to the schedule; however the
Azerbaijani side, unlike Karabakh side, did not lead out the OSCE
mission to its frontline.

Representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs
accompanying the OSCE mission emphasized that despite messages
exaggerated by the Azerbaijani side about arson of settlements within
the security zone of the NKR, participants of the monitoring haven’t
registered such facts. On one of districts between positions of the
sides have been found traces of arson sourcing from a territory which
is under the control of Azerbaijan, and this fact proves earlier
version of the NKR Government regarding burning of grass by the
Azerbaijani side.

Monitorings will be held on different parts of the frontline on July
4 and 5 as well.

On June 15, 2006, the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs turned
to Kaspshik’s office with a request to hold a monitoring on the
frontline between Armenia and Azerbaijan in order to estimate the
situation and make sure that accusations of Baku about alleged arson
of settlements next to the frontline ad under control of the NKR are
made up.