MONITORING HELD ON TERRITORIES NEIGHBORING NAGORNO KARABAKH

Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 4 2006

Monitoring of the international expert mission headed by Bernard Snoy,
Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, to assess
the impact of fires on the environment started in Nagorno Karabakh
and the neighboring territories. The monitoring will continue for 11
days. In Snoy’s words, the mandate of the mission is the evaluation
of short-term and long-term impact of fires on the environment and
elaboration of instructions for eradication of fire consequences. "We
shall develop instructions to prevent reoccurrence of fires,"
the coordinator said. He added that for full and exact evaluation,
the mission intends to investigate the fire zones, as well as the
contact line.