STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan

The monitoring was held on Friday, in the NKR’s Hadrut direction near Horadiz settlement.

From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria), field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO).

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was held by Office staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden), and Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the CiO.

The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule, and no ceasefire violation was recorded.

The Azerbaijani side, however, did not lead the OSCE mission to its frontlines.

From the Karabakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by representatives of the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.