AZG Armenian Daily #123, 30/06/2007

Nagorno-Karabakh

NKR MFA EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER SETTING FIRES IN BORDERLINE AREAS BY
AZERI SIDE

On June 27 the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a note to
Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, expressing concern over numerous cases of fires
from Azerbaijani side across the line of contact between the armed
forces of NKR and Azerbaijan.

Taking into account the detrimental impact on republic’s economy and
environment, as well as threat to human health and security, caused by
fires in summer of 2006, the NKR MFA urged the Office of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to conduct a crisis
monitoring of the borderline area.

The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed hope that timely
interference by the Office of Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office will allow to avoid the repetition of the summer
2006 situation, which in particular, Azeri authorities used for
propaganda and which became an additional factor to destabilizing the
peace process, the NKR MFA Press Office reports.

By Nana Petrosian