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Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 31
Trend:
Despite the clear violation of the ceasefire by Armenia during the monitoring on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the OSCE Minsk Group has not officially announced the fault of the Armenian side, said the statement of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Oct.31.
On October 27, 2015, upon initial agreement the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs passed from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan through the line of contact between the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the territories controlled by Azerbaijan army, said the statement.
"At the very moment a ceasefire monitoring exercise was conducted by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and his field officers on the road between Tartar and Aghdara (Tartar district of Azerbaijan)," the statement said.
"Despite prior agreement to undertake measures to ensure safety of the OSCE personnel, repeated gunfire was shot from the occupied territories controlled by Armenia's armed forces in the direction of the positions of the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan," according to the statement. "This incident forced the OSCE monitoring team to seek protection of the Azerbaijani armed forces."
The OSCE team immediately contacted the opposite side to have the fire halted and to renew guarantees to hold fire, according to the representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who were on the ground at a time of the incident.