THE MEDIATORS’ SILENCE LEADS TO REPEATED VIOLATIONS OF THE CEASE-FIRE REGIME BY THE AZERBAIJAN PARTY
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2009-03-13 18:53
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
According to the information of the NKR Defense Ministry, in the night
of March 13, the Azerbaijan party again violated the cease-fire regime
in the southeast direction of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani
armed forces’ contact-line, as a result of which a serviceman of the
NKR Defense Army, while having his duty, was killed by a sniper.
It is noticeable that the incident took place the next day after the
Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Andrzej Kasprzyk held a monitoring of the NKR and Azerbaijani armed
forces’ contact-line just in this area.
This incident, followed by a casualty, took place due to the lack
of a corresponding public assessment by the mediators and Andrzej
Kasprzyk’s Office of the frequent cease-fire violations by the
Azerbaijani party during the monitorings held by the Office of the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
The lack of a corresponding political assessment of similar actions,
which have been repeatedly emphasized by Stepanakert, only encourage
the aggressive side, which doesn’t even consider it expedient to
discuss the proposal of the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group
member-states on withdrawing snipers from the front positions as a
confidence-building measure, which was introduced at the December 4,
2008 meeting of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers.