THEY HEARD A SHOT FROM THE POSITIONS OF AZERBAIJANI ARMY
Information-Analytical Department Of NKR MFA

Lragir.am
05 July 06

On July 4, the Office of the OSCE Personal Representative Chairman in
Office conducted monitorings of the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh
and Azerbaijan contact-line in the region of the settlement of Marzily
and in the north-west of the settlement of Kouropatkino.

>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring group was
headed by the OSCE Personal Representative of Chairman in Office
Andrzey Kasprzyk. Field assistants of the PRC-i-O Peter Key (Great
Britain) and Gunter Folk (Germany) were in the monitoring group.

Monitorings passed in accordance with the planned schedule. However,
during the monitoring in the northwest of the settlement of
Kouropatkino the OSCE Office coordinator Imre Palatinus, who was
monitoring from the Azerbaijani side informed from the second
contact-line of AR army of a shot , which was heard in a kilometer
left-wing from them. The OSCE mission from the NKR Defense Army did
not hear the shot. As the Azerbaijani side broke the agreement and
did not led out the OSCE monitoring group on the front line, but on
the second line, which was situated in 1,5 km from the contact-line,
the monitoring participants from the Karabakh side were justified to
tell the OSCE mission that they heard a shot from the positions of
Azerbaijani army.

The representatives of the NKR Defense Army and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, who accompanied the OSCE monitoring group, noted that
contrary to the information spread by the Azerbaijani side on the
burnings of the settlements being under the NKR security zone the
monitoring participants did not fix such facts.

On July 5, the OSCE mission will hold monitorings in the settlements
of Kouropatkino and Ashaghy Veisaly.

Let us remind of the fact that on June 15, 2006, the NKR Ministry
of Foreign Affairs addressed to the office of the OSCE Personal
Representative Chairman-in -Office with a request to conduct
a monitoring in bordering with Azerbaijan zone for the purpose
of giving real estimate to the situation and make certain of the
strained accusations of Baku on the alleged burnings of the adjoining
settlements, situated under the control of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic territories.