Monitoring was cancelled unexpectedly
On January 22, in accordance with the earlier achieved agreement with the NKR authorities the OSCE mission began conducting а regular monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the Askeran direction.
From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Kee (Great Britain), Vladimir Tchountoulov (Bulgaria) and Zhaslan Nurtazin (Kazakhstan).
From the opposite side, the mission was headed by Coordinator of the OSCE Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary), who at the beginning of the monitoring ordered to stop and then to cancel the monitoring in tote. The causes are being investigated, NKR MFA Press-Service reports.
