The press has already reported that on April 10, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the U.S. state of Maine passed a joint resolution recognizing the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The resolution calls on the U.S. President and Congress to support the self-determination and democratic independence of the NKR, to facilitate its constructive involvement in the efforts of the international community for achieving a just and lasting solution to the security issues in the strategically significant region. It should be noted that for less than a year, a few political acts have already taken place at the level of foreign parliaments, directly or indirectly recognizing the right of the NKR to self-determination and establishment of its own independent state.

                 On April 4, the OSCE mission conducted monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Martakert - Tartar and Aghdam – Barda directions. As is known, such observations are carried out regularly, but this monitoring was specific - it comprised the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and Ian Kelly (USA). Another feature of it was that during the monitoring, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs crossed the Line of Contact through a de-mined corridor and passed to the NKR territory.