THE AZERBAIJANI PARTY WRECKED THE OSCE MONITORING

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2009-02-27 10:06
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

On February 26, the OSCE mission scheduled to conduct a regular
monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani
Armed Forces near Horadiz settlement of Fizouli region.

However, from the very beginning of the monitoring a single-round
firing was opened in the direction of coordinator of the OSCE
office Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistant of the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Irji Aberle (Czech
Republic), who conducted the monitoring from the positions of the NKR
Defense Army, and the representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defense
and Foreign Affairs, accompanying them. Then, burst of machine-gun
fire was opened from the Azerbaijani positions that passed to the
left from the monitoring group.

Afterwards, another single shot was made in the direction of the
mission.

Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk, who headed the monitoring group from the Azerbaijani
territory ordered to stop the monitoring.

Besides, the Azerbaijani party did not lead the OSCE mission to the
arranged point of its front-lines once again.