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Monitoring expected on contact line of Azerbaijani, Armenian troops

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 7 June 2016 12:42 (UTC +04:00)
OSCE is expected to monitor the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops June 8.
Monitoring expected on contact line of Azerbaijani, Armenian troops

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 7

Trend:

OSCE is expected to monitor the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops June 8, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend June 7.

It is planned to hold the monitoring under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative on the contact line to the east from the Kuropatkino village of Azerbaijan's Khojavend district, the ministry said.

On the territories controlled by Azerbaijani armed forces, the monitoring will be held by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Hristo Hristov and Peter Svedberg.

On the territories occupied and controlled by Armenian armed forces, the monitoring will be carried out by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Simon Tiller and Jiri Aberle.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

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