Interfax News Agency, Russia
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
March 6, 2008 Thursday
Stepanakert will cooperate with OSCE in monitoring line of contact
with Azerbaijan
STEPANAKERT March 6
The breakaway Nagorno Karabakh Republic is prepared to assist in
conducting crisis monitoring at the line of contact between the
Karabakh and Azeri troops on March 7.
The office of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe) chairman-in-office’s personal representative delivered to the
Karabakh Foreign Ministry a note asking for assistance in crisis
monitoring on March 7, the Karabakh Foreign Ministry told Interfax on
Thursday.
The Ministry said it is prepared to assist in organizing and
conducting crisis monitoring and to ensure the safety of the OSCE
mission members, the press service said.
The note was received in reply to Karabakh’s request for a crisis
monitoring at the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azeri
armed forces near the village of Levonarkh in Martakert district, the
ministry said. "Here, in the early hours of March 4 the Azeri armed
forces grossly violated the ceasefire, which resulted in eight Azeri
special unit soldiers killed and two Karabakh servicemen wounded,"
the ministry’s press service said.