OSCE to Conduct Monitoring Near Talish Village

The next ceasefire monitoring exercise will be conducted on the Line of Confrontation (LOC) of the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In accordance with its mandate, the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office is planning to conduct the next ceasefire monitoring exercise on the LOC, west of the village of Tap Garakoyunlu, in the Goranboy region of the Republic of Azerbaijan on May 11, 2016.

The Personal Representative`s field assistants, Hristo Hristov, Simon Tiller and the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus Günther Bachler will carry out the monitoring exercise from the territory of Azerbaijan controlled by its Armed Forces.

The Personal Representative and his field assistant, Peter Svedberg and the representative of the Chairperson-in-Office responsible directly for the activities of the Office of the Personal Representative Thomas Lenk will participate on the other side of the LOC, in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan occupied and controlled by the armed forces of Armenia.

Note that this is the first OSCE monitoring after the intensification of the conflict in early April and the place where the most intense fighting took place.

According to the Armenian side, the monitoring will be held near the Talish village. -16D-