In accordance with the agreement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on 16 January on the line of contact between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the section northeast of Akna.
As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh, the monitoring was conducted from the positions of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (PRCiO), Ghenadie Petrikan (Moldova) and Mikhail Olaru (Moldova).
From the opposite side of the line, the monitoring was conducted by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, his personal assistant Simon Tiller (United Kingdom) and Martin Schuster (Germany), a staff member of the PRCiO office.
The monitoring was carried out according to the planned schedule, but the Azerbaijani side did not bring the OSCE mission to its forward positions.
The monitoring mission was accompanied from the Artsakh side by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Artsakh.
