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 Thursday, in an eastern direction of Talish village of the 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 was conducted by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), and his Field Assistants Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria) as well as Office staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden).

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was held by Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic), Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO, and Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO.

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

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