STEPANAKERT. – The monitoring of the OSCE mission at the line of contact between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh planned for Thursday was suspended due to fire from automatic weapons from the Azerbaijani side.

The Azerbaijani side fired in the direction of Karabakh Defense Army, NKR foreign ministry’s press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. The fire was registered by the group of observers from both sides.

Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk who was heading the mission from the opponent’s side decided to stop the monitoring for security reasons.