Baku, Azerbaijan, July 15
Trend:
The OSCE monitoring held July 15 along the contact line between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops has passed without incidents, said Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry July 15.
The monitoring was held under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative on the contact line to the south of the Horadiz village of Azerbaijan’s Fizuli district, the ministry said.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring was carried out by the field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Jiri Aberle, Simon Tiller, as well as the representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Harvey.
On the opposite side, the monitoring was carried out by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Hristo Hristov, Peter Svedberg, as well as head of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, colonel Hans Lampalzer.
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 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.