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 planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

The monitoring was held on Thursday, in the eastern direction of 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 personal assistant Simon Tiller (Great Britain) to the Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), and by Colonel Andrey Barashkin (Russia), representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG).

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was held by field assistant Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria) of the Personal Representative to the OSCE CiO,  and by Colonel Hans Lampalzer (Austria), Head of the OSCE HLPG.

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 from the NKR Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.