OSCE Mission: Monitoring in Azerbaijan from a more distant point

On June 23, according to the earlier agreement with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission held scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line, near the NKR Martuni region’s Kuropatkino village.

From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was held by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office William Prior (Great Britain), Antal Herdich (Hungary), and Christo Christov (Bulgaria).

From the opposite side, the monitoring was held by Coordinator of the OSCE Office Imre Palatinus (Hungary) and Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Marius Puodziunas (Lithuania).

During the monitoring, no violation of the cease-fire regime was fixed, but the Azerbaijani party didn’t lead the OSCE Mission to its front line, or the earlier agreed point, as a result of which the OSCE monitoring groups had to conduct the monitoring from a more distant point.

From the Karabakh side, representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense accompanied the monitoring mission, the NKR MFA Press Service reports.