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MONITORING ON THE AZERBAIJANI BORDER CANCELLED
[03:13 pm] 10 July, 2008

The OSCE monitoring group of observers arrived at the village of
Chinari, Tavush Region. However, the exact process of the monitoring
was ruined by Azerbaijan, which did not guarantee security of the
observers. According to Andranik Mkrtumian, Representative of the
Joint Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, observation on the Armenian
part was to be conducted by Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative
of the CiO. Kasprzyk has arrived in Yerevan and he is to meet RA
Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanian.

As Andranik Mkrtumian informs, the regime of cease-fire is rather
often violated in the village of Chinari, that was why the Ministry of
Defense asked the OSCE monitoring group to conduct the next
observation near the village.

`Azerbaijan has often rejected the offer and it does the same
today. However, we are going to insist on our claim,’ Mkrtumian said.

Reminder: Previously for the same reason another monitoring was
cancelled in the Village of Berkaber, Tavush Region.