From the positions of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (CiO) Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, his Field Assistants Ognjen Jovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Mihail Olaru (Moldova), as well as representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG) Colonel Yuri Dudchenko (Russia).
On 9 April Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received personal representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
On April 10, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the direction of the Askeran region, eastward of Akna.
”Ilham Aliyev informed about the assessments of his Vienna March 29 meeting with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan over Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.
Only four days later, on April 5, 2016, Azerbaijan, suffering considerable losses, was forced to ask for the cessation of hostilities through Russia’s mediation.
On 2 April Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received the delegation of the Armenian Republican Party.
“The negotiations should continue, but we also should understand that as long as the conflict is not solved, we, as a state and people, must be ready for any development”, the PM said.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, currently on a working visit to Artsakh, visited the village of Talish in the country’s Martakert region together with Artsakh’s President Bako Sahakyan.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan together with President Armen Sargsyan of the Republic of Armenia visited the Maghavouz village in the Martakert region on April 1 and within the framework of events celebrating the 26th anniversary of the liberation of Maghavouz attended the opening of the memorial commemorating the perished freedom fighters.
Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime nearly 170 times on Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line during the period of March 24-30, firing over 1000 bullets in the direction of Armenian border guards.
