STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

The monitoring will be held on Thursday, in the eastern direction of NKR Martakert Region.

The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that from the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring will be conducted by staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden) of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), personal assistant Simon Tiller (Great Britain) to the Personal Representative of the CiO, and by Colonel Andrey Barashkin (Russia), representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG).

The NKR authorities have expressed their readiness to assist in conducting the monitoring and to ensure the safety of the OSCE Mission members.