AZERBAIJAN HAMPERS OSCE FULL MONITORING

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.09.2006 16:58 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On September 12, in accordance with the agreement
achieved beforehand with the NKR authorities, the OSCE Mission
held a planned monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani
armed forces’ contact-line near the settlement of Seysulan of the
NKR Martakert region, reports the Press Service of the NKR MFA. From
the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring mission was led
by Coordinator of the OSCE Office, Lieutenant Colonel Imre Palatinus
(Hungary) and Field Assistant of the OSCE PR C-i-O Irzhi Aberle (the
Czech Republic). The monitoring passed in accordance with the planned
schedule, no violations of the cease-fire regime were registered.

However, the Azerbaijani side once more did not lead the OSCE mission
to its front line. In spite of the fact that the dividing line between
the positions of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan on the area where
the monitoring was conducted comprised less than a hundred meters,
the Azerbaijani party led the OSCE Mission to a point at a distance
of seven hundred meters from its front line, thus hampering the full
visual inspection of the mentioned zone. From the Karabakh party,
representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense
accompanied the OSCE monitoring mission.