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 NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that the monitoring was held on Thursday, and in the direction of Hadrut, 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, and by Colonel Andrey Barashkin (Russia), a representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG).

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 Chairman-in-Office, Office staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden), and by Lieutenant Colonel Dan Harvey (Ireland), a representative of the OSCE HLPG.

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

The Azerbaijani side, however, did not take 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.