Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 7
Trend:
The OSCE monitoring held along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops passed without incidents, the press service of Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told Trend Feb. 7.
The monitoring was held Feb. 7 under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative in Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli District.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring was held by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and his field assistants Ghenadie Petrica and Peter Svedberg.
On the Azerbaijani territories occupied and controlled by Armenian armed forces, the monitoring was held by Hristo Hristov, Jiri Aberle and Simon Tiller, field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative.
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.