OSCE MONITORING IN KARABAKH CONFIRMS VERSION ON AZERI PARTY BURNING GRASS

Yerkir
04.07.2006 16:13

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – On July 3, the Office of the Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (C-i-O) monitored the contact line of
the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Aghdam-Gindarkh
direction and in the settlement of Novrouzlou, reports the Press
Service of the NKR MFA.

>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission
was led by Personal Representative of the OSCE C-i-O Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE C-i-O
Peter Key (Great Britain), Irzhi Aberle (Czech Republic) 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 monitoring no violations of the cease-fire regime were registered.

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 burning 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 traces of fire were
discovered, which spread from territories under the control of
Azerbaijan. This again confirms the version earlier announced by NKR
authorities that the Azerbaijani party burns grass. The monitoring
of different sections of contact-line will also be conducted on July
4 and 5.

We remind that June 15 the NKR MFA addressed the Office of the
Personal Representative of the OSCE C-i-O, asking for monitoring
the zone adjacent to Azerbaijan to provide a real assessment to the
situation and to make sure Baku invents accusations on alleged burning
of border settlements on territories controlled by the NKR.