ANDRZEJ KASPRZYK NOT AUTHORISED TO BRING A CHARGE ON ANY OF THE PARTIES
ArmRadio.am
22.08.2006 16:35
"I’m neither a Prosecutor, nor an investigator, and it’s not in
my power to charge this or that party, Personal representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk said in
an interview with Arminfo correspondent in response to the question
about arsons at the contact line of the Armed Forces of NKR, Armenia
and Azerbaijan and the disputes around these arsons.
The ambassador underlined that he has no mandate of carrying out
investigation. "My task is to create an atmosphere of trust between
the conflicting sides. In the framework of this point of my mandate
early July I visited the territories where inflammations occur, and
the conclusions of my visit are expressed in the report I prepared,"
Kasprzyk reminded. In his words, the monitoring did not reveal any
facts confirming the reasons of the arsons. "I can say only what is
articulated in the report: the heat contributed to the expansion
of the arsons. We should take into account that the inflammations
occurred also before, but not of this scale. Fires occur because of
different reasons," noted the Ambassador, adding that in some European
countries the authorities fight against forest fires.