French cochairman clarifies contact line situation

The OSCE Minsk Group's French cochairman clarified the situation regarding the situation on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops. "This time we crossed the contact line of the troops in not Karabakh but Gazakh," Bernard Fassier reported. "Luckily, tension here is lesser than in Karabakh," he added.

On Tuesday, after the monitoring was over, the OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen met head of the executive power of Gazakh region Ayaz Askarov. Later on, the cochairmen flew to Baku on a helicopter.

On Tuesday, the OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen held monitoring on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops. Monitoring held on the road between the Jafarli village in the Azerbaijani Gazakh region and Armenian Kayan village on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on Nov.29 proceeded without incident and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs moved to the Azerbaijani side, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend on Tuesday.


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