NKR MFA PRESS SERVICE INFORMS
Azat Artsakh, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh
Oct 17 2006
In the morning of October 5 the OSCE mission including NKR experts
started the monitoring of the area adjacent to the front line
between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and NKR. They started the
monitoring on the Azerbaijani side. Earlier the NKR government had
insisted on postponing the monitoring to include representatives
of NKR in the mission, and sent a note to the OSCE. "We are sorry
that the OSCE did not provide necessary conditions to include NKR
representatives in the OSCE mission set up to study the environment in
the areas which suffered from fires. However, this does not exclude
the possibility of including Karabakh experts in the OSCE mission,
therefore the mission was postponed to include NKR representatives,"
stated NKR Foreign Minister Georgy Petrossian in answer to the
question of news reporters on the action of official Stepanakert
connected with the visit of the OSCE experts. Georgy Petrossian
also informed that the NKR foreign ministry sent a note to the OSCE
stating clearly the stance of the government of the republic on the
participation of experts from Karabakh. "Part of the territories to
be monitored is under the jurisdiction of NKR, which is sufficient
reason for our participation in the mentoring on the opposite side,"
emphasized the minister. According to the reliable information that
the NKR authorities possess, a dramatic situation has occurred in
the Karabakh territories occupied by Azerbaijan: the forests in the
region of Shahumian are destroyed, the ecological balance of the east
of Martakert was broken, where the structure of land and microflora
were damaged.