An Azerbaijani servicemen was killed on March 30 when Armenian forces opened fire near the village of Alibeyli in Tovuz district; he was the sixth serviceman to die from enemy fire this month, zerkalo.az reported on March 31 quoting the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. The Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministries have each blamed the opposing side for opening fire on March 29 and preventing a routine monitoring by the OSCE of the Line of Contact separating the two sides, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The OSCE has not commented on that incident. Also on March 29, the Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic issued a statement criticizing as \"inadmissible\" international mediators\' \"attempts to lay equal responsibility on all parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for violations of the cease-fire regime,\" Noyan Tapan reported. That statement identified Azerbaijan as having instigated the cease-fire violations and argued that the international community\'s failure to acknowledge this risks further destabilizing the situation in the South Caucasus. (RFE/RL)