Armenian Parliamentarian: Baku tries in every possible way to discredit OSCE Minsk Group

ArmInfo."The incident at the  Armenian-Azerbaijani state border during OSCE monitoring was the  result of a well-thought-out policy of Azerbaijan, aimed at  discrediting OSCE Minsk Group, Deputy Chairman of the ruling  Republican Party of Armenia, head of the parliamentary commission on  foreign affairs Armen Ashotyan expressed a similar point of view on  September 2, touching the shelling of the OSCE monitoring group near  the village of Chinari on August 31.

According to him, the violation of ceasefire during the monitoring of  the OSCE pursued only this goal.  "Today, Azerbaijan has driven  itself into a deadlock in the negotiation process on the Karabakh  settlement and is trying in every possible way to get out of it," he  said.

Referring to the statement by Personal Representative of OSCE  Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk on the incident, Ashotyan said  that this statement is in no way connected with the representatives  of OSCE Minsk Group.

To note, on August 31, during the OSCE monitoring on the  Armenian-Azerbaijani state border in the direction of the village of  Chinari of the Tavush area of Armenia, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces  opened fire. Tigran Balayan, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs of Armenia, wrote about this on his page on twitter, then the  press secretary of the Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan also  confirmed the information. Meanwhile, Azerbaijani media reports that  the next monitoring of OSCE on the Armenian- Azerbaijani border  passed without incident.

On September 1, Personal Representative of OSCE, Andrzej Kasprzyk,  confirmed that before the monitoring began, members of the group who  had arrived in the village of Chinari heard the sound of gunfire.