OSCE stops monitoring due to shooting from Azerbaijani side

In accordance with an arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring on the Line of Contact between the Armed Forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. The monitoring was conducted in the vicinity of the village Horadiz in Hadrut region on January 14.

From the positions of the Defense Army of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the monitoring was conducted by the Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman­in­Office Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria) and Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic). From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was conducted by Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine), the Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman­in­Office; Simon Tiller (Great Britain), the Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman­in­Office; and Peter Svedberg (Sweden), the staff member of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman­in­Office.

The Karabakh side led the OSCE mission to its frontlines, but due to the shooting fired from the Azerbaijani side, the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman­inOffice found that it’s necessary to stop the monitoring for security reasons. The representatives of the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense accompanied the OSCE monitoring mission from the Karabakh side.