STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (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, and in the northern direction of the Martakert Region of NKR.

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 field assistants Yevgeny Sharov (Ukraine) and Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria) of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), and by Office staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden).

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was held by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO, and his field assistant Jiri Aberle (Czech Republic).

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

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