THE NKR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS…

Azat Artsakh Newspaper NKR
December 23, 2009

…addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office The Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic addressed a letter
to the OSCE CiO George Papandreou in connection with an incident on
the Line of Contact between the armed forces of NKR and Azerbaijan
on December 20, 2009. The letter, in particular, reads that on
December 20 of this year a woman was shot dead from the Azerbaijani
positions in the Aghdam direction of the Contact Line, as she was
moving ahead towards a military outpost of the NKR Defense Army.
"It is not the first time that local residents, forcibly settled in
frontier areas and used for military purposes, are trying to come
over to the Nagorno Karabakh side due to intolerable conditions",
– the letter says. The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs called
the attention of the Office of the Personal Representative of the
Chairman-in-Office to the fact that the specified incident had occurred
as a result of violation of the cease-fire by the Azerbaijani party,
while servicemen of the NKR Defense Army tried to undertake all
possible measures to prevent the tragic death of the elderly woman.
A copy of the letter was sent to the Personal Representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Ambassadors Yury Merzlyakov of Russia,
Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States.