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.