MONITORINGS OF CONTACT-LINE OF NKR AND AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES IN REGION OF MARZILI AND TO NORTH-WEST OF KUROPATKINO CONDUCTED
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 5 2006
STEPANAKERT, JULY 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On July 4, the
Office of the Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office
conducted monitorings of contact-lines of NKR and Azerbaijani armed
forces in the region of the populated area of Marzili and to the
north-west of the populated area of Kuropatkino.
>From the positions of the NKR defence army the monitoring group
was headed by Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Andrzej Kasprczik. Field Assistants of the Personal Representative
of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Key (UK) and Gunter Folk (Germany)
were included in the group.
As Noyan Tapan was informed from NKR Foreign Ministry Press Service,
the monitorings were held according to the schedule. But during the
monitoring to th e north-west of the populated area of Kuropatkino,
Coordinator of OSCE Office Imre Palatinus conducting monitoring from
the Azerbaijani side informed from the second line of borders of
Azerbaijani army about a shot fired to the left of them. The OSCE
mission conducting monitoring from the positions of the NKR defence
army did not hear the shot. Due to the fact that by violating the
agreement, the Azerbaijani side brought the monitoring group not to the
front borders but to the second line 1.5 km far from the contact-line,
the monitoring participants from the Karabakh side have all grounds to
declare to the OSCE mission that the shot was fired from the positions
of the Azerbaijani army.
Representatives of the NKR Defence Ministry and Foreign Ministry
accompanying the OSCE monitoring group said that against the
information spread by the Azerbaijani side about arsons of populated
areas making part of the NKR security zone the monitoring participants
did not fix such facts.
On July 5, the OSCE mission will conduct monitorings in the region
of populated areas of Kuropatkino and Ashagi Veysally.