OSCE envoy Andrzej Kasprzyk has said that an investigation into a fatal clash on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line is not within his competence.
"I know what happened at the front, but an investigation is not part of my mandate," Kasprzyk, the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, told APA news agency today.
He said that he had met servicemen in Karabakh and Yerevan and today in Baku about the incident. "Their reports are contradictory," the envoy said.
Describing the incident as unnecessary, Kasprzyk offered his condolences to the families of the two Azerbaijani servicemen killed in the incident.
The envoy said that recent monitoring of the contact line north of the village of Ashagi Veysalli in Khojavand District had passed off peacefully.
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry reports that Armenian provocateurs crossed the contact line in the village of Chayli in Terter District and attempted to attack Azerbaijani army positions on 31 August. The Azerbaijani forces put up stiff resistance. Two Azerbaijani soldiers and at least three Armenians died in the fighting.
The Armenian Defence Ministry says the clash was caused by Azerbaijani forces attempting to cross the front line, and denies any Armenian loss of life.
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