YEREVAN. – It is necessary to increase the number of field assistants to the personal representative to the OSCE Chairman-in-office in the conflict zone so that they can record the violations, President Serzh Sargsyan said during a meeting with the ambassadors of OSCE on April 4.

“According to their explanations, Azerbaijan attacked the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to resolve problems that assumingly had to be addressed through the peaceful talks under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs. We expect all the parties concerned with the regional peace to clearly demand an explanation from Baku concerning the launch of the millitary operations,” he said.

He recalled that in recent days many heads of states and international organisations expressed their concerns over the situation, and made statements calling to establish peace. They cannot be effective as long as they are not directed to a specific adressee, the one who provoked the offensive, and as long as they do not foresee consequences for disregarding them: this is exactly why I refer to the international community as being silent.

“Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are in favor of hostilities to be ceased and the 1994 ceasefire regime to be fully respected with all the parties returning to their initial positions and barracks as of the 1st of April, 2016. To preserve the ceasefire the OSCE needs to come up with stabilizing measures, which under these conditions should primarily include the urgent introduction of the ceasefire violations investigation mechanism and considerable increase of the monitoring capacities of the personal representative to the OSCE Chairman-in-office. It is also necessary to increase the number of field assistants to the personal representative to the OSCE Chairman-in-office in the conflict zone so that they can record the violations,” President Sargsyan added.