STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the 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 Wednesday, and in the Hadrut direction.

From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring will be conducted by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, and his field assistants Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic) and Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine).

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