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

The monitoring will be held on Wednesday, to the south of Gulistan settlement of the Shahumyan Region

The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that, from the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring will be conducted by Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova), field assistant of the Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (CiO); Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Personal Assistant to the Personal Representative to the OSCE CiO; and Klaus Keller, representative of the OSCE Chairmanship, and staff member of the German Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring will be held by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative to the OSCE CiO; his field assistant Khristo Khristov (Bulgaria); and Peter Svedberg (Sweden), staff member of the Office of the Personal Representative to the OSCE CiO.

The NKR authorities have expressed their readiness to assist in conducting the monitoring and to ensure the safety of the OSCE Mission members.