The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA), and Bernard Fassier (France), as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, who are in Azerbaijan now, have left for the contact line between the Azerbaijani and NKR armed forces.

On September 8 morning, they arrived in Barda. After a meeting at the local administration, the French Co-Chair told journalists that the Co-Chairs’ regional visit will be followed by a final statement, the APA News Agency reports.

On behalf of the Heads of State and of the three Co-Chairs, Bernard Fassier told the journalists that the Co-Chairs paid an interesting visit to that region of Azerbaijan and held meetings with local officials to get first-hand information on the situation in the region. He pointed out that the Co-Chairs got information on forcibly displaced people, regional situation and living conditions. Fassier did not make any comments, saying it was the first stage of the Co-Chairs’ mission. He said that detailed information will be available in two or three days, without any comments on all the aspects of the Co-Chairs’ meetings in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

NEWS.am reminds readers that monitoring of the contact line in northern Karabakh is to be held on September 8. The international mediators are expected to cross the front line. The NKR’s northern regions have recently been a target of Azerbaijani acts of sabotage. The last act was committed on September 4. The international mediators are to hold meetings with the Nagorno-Karabakh leadership today. On September 9 they are to arrive in Yerevan.