OSCE CRISIS-MONITORING CONDUCTED IN KARABAKH CONFLICT ZONE

De Facto
Nov 26, 2008

STEPANAKERT, 26.11.08. DE FACTO. On current November 25, on the
initiative of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic authorities, the OSCE
mission conducted a crisis-monitoring on the contact line of Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the south-eastern direction
of the NKR DA positions, where on the night of November 15-16, 2008,
a gross violation of the ceasefire regime by the Azerbaijani side
had taken place. The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs without delay
notified the OSCE MG co-chairs and Personal Representative of the
OSCE Chairman-in-office of the incident.

>From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring was
conducted by coordinator of the OSCE office Imre Palatinus (Hungary)
and field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-office Irzhi Aberle (Czech Republic) and Vladimir Chuntulov
(Bulgaria).

The NKR Defense Army representatives showed the OSCE mission the place
from where a special unit of the Azerbaijani armed forces had tried to
attack the positions of the Karabakh army, as well as presented the
chronicle of the incident in details. The monitoring group members
registered all the data to enter in their report.

Despite the presence of the Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-office Andrzey Kasprzyk, who headed the monitoring group
from the Azerbaijani side, the latter did not lead the OSCE mission
members to their front lines, as a result of which the monitoring
groups had to conduct a monitoring from more remote distance, NKR
MFA Information Department reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress