OSCE monitoring ends in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone

In accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the OSCE mission has conducted monitoring of troops in the contact line village of Tapqaraqoyunlu in Azerbaijan’s Goranboy District.

The monitoring ended without incident. On the Azerbaijani side the monitoring was held by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, his field assistant Hristo Hristov and the OSCE High-Level Planning Group Representative, Colonel Tuncay Sevim. 

On the Armenian side, the monitoring was conducted by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Yevgeny Sharov, Peter Swedberg and OSCE High-Level Planning Group Representative, Colonel Markus Widmer, Trend reports.

The Armenian armed forces twice violated the ceasefire by exposing  the lives of the international observers to threats during the monitoring conducted by the OSCE on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in January and February.