STEPANAKERT, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. On March 16, according to the earlier achieved agreement with the Nagorno Karabakh Republic authorities, the OSCE Mission had to conduct scheduled monitoring of the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces' contact-line, in the Askeran direction. But, the monitoring was frustrated by the Azerbaijani party, which didn't lead the OSCE Mission members to the earlier agreed monitoring site. According to NKR MFA Press service, earlier, the Karabakh party urged to hold monitoring just in this section of the contact-line, where gross violations of the cease-fire regime by the Azerbaijani armed forced had repeatedly taken place.

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