Monitoring Contact Line an Incident in and of Itself, Says French Co-Chair

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke (USA), Bernard Fassier (France), and Igor Popov (Russia), as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk arrived in Barda yesterday as part of their regional tour to monitor the Nagorno Karabakh–Azerbaijan line of contact, reports APA news agency.  

“We came to Nagorno-Karabakh directly from Baku, by crossing the contact line. As far as I know, this is the only such case within the last 9 years,” Fassier told journalists.

In his words, crossing the contact line is an incident in and of itself.

Referring to the conducted negotiations, he said: “I have to tell you that we can not make any comments now because it is only first phase of our mission. We will make a statement in details about all aspects of our meetings in Azerbaijan and Armenia two-three days later in the end of our visit,” reports APA.

The Co-Chairs will arrive in Yerevan on Thursday.