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    Interfax, Russia
    Feb 27 2009


    OSCE team halts monitoring after fire in Karabakh conflict region



    Stepanakert, 27 February: A team of the Organization for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe was forced on Thursday [26 February] to cut
    short a regular monitoring mission along the separation line between
    Azerbaijani and Nagornyy-Karabakh armed forces because of alleged fire
    towards the inspectors from the Azerbaijani side, the
    Nagornyy-Karabakh foreign ministry said.

    "At the very start of the monitoring session, there was the sound of
    an individual shot fired from the Azerbaijanii side towards the
    coordinator of the OSCE office, a field assistant to a personal
    representative of the OSCE chairman, and officials of the foreign
    ministry and defence ministry of the Nagornyy-Karabakh republic who
    were conducting a monitoring mission on the positions of the defence
    army of the Nagornyy-Karabakh republic," the ministry told Interfax.

    After this came "a burst of assault rifle fire from the Azerbaijani
    side," the ministry said. The bullets "passed to the left of the
    monitoring team, after which one more shot was fired towards the
    mission".

    Andrzej Kasprzyk, a personal representative of the OSCE
    chairman-in-office, who was coordinating the mission from Azeri
    territory, ordered the inspection to be ended, the ministry said.

    The site of the monitoring was the vicinity of Horadiz, a village in
    Fizuli District.

    The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry confirmed there had been outbreaks of
    fire during the mission but claimed they had come from the
    Nagornyy-Karabakh side and said Kasprzyk had ordered an investigation
    into the incident.

    "There was the sound of two individual shots [from the
    Nagornyy-Karabakh side] that developed into a burst of fire," the
    ministry said in a press release. "Later on, there was the sound of
    one more shot. No more assault rifle fire was heard after that."

    Kasprzyk ordered the mission to be halted and the incident to be
    investigated, the release said.
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