AZERI PARTY FAILED TO LEAD OSCE MISSION TO ITS FRONTLINE IN THE COURSE OF MONITORING

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
May 30 2007

Monitoring of the Karabagh and Azeri armed forces’ contact line was
held without incidents.

Planned monitoring was held to the east of the Seysulan settlement
of the NKR Martakert region. No cease-fire violations were fixed in
the course of the monitoring.

According to the information DE FACTO got at the NKR MFA Press Office,
the monitoring had passed according to the schedule in the main,
however, the Azeri party had again failed to lead the mission to its
frontline, as a result of which the OSCE monitoring groups had to
conduct observations from more remote distance.

The NKR MFA officials specially directed OSCE mission’s attention to
this breach of the Azeri party.

>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the observation was held
by the OSCE office coordinator sub-colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary),
filed assistants of the OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Personal Representative
Gunter Folk (Germany) and Zhaslan Nurtazin (Kazakhstan). From the
Karabagh party the observation mission was accompanied by the NKR
MFA and MOD officials.