Today, during a monitoring  mission, Mink Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA), Jacques Faure (France) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzey Kasprzyk, crossed the Artsakh contact line in a section previously cleared of mines in the vicinity of Askeran.

From the positions of the Artsakh Defense Army, the monitoring group comprised Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Antal Herdich (Hungary) and Irjie Aberle (Czech Republic).

On the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistants of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Hristo Hristov (Bulgaria) and William Prior (Great Britain).

 The monitoring mission was accompanied by representatives of the Artsakh Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.