STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission conducted a reinforced monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

The monitoring was held on Wednesday, in the northwestern 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, Personal Representative to OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (CiO), and Office staff member Peter Svedberg (Sweden) as well as OSCE CiO Representative Thomas Lenk (Germany).

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 special representative Gunther Bachler (Germany) of the OSCE CiO. 

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

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