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 Wednesday, and in the Hadrut direction.

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

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

The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule, and no ceasefire violations were recorded.

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