Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.2 / Trend , K.Zerbaliyeva /
Monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces Feb. 2 after a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman in Azerbaijan's Tartar region.
Despite the presence of observers, shots were heard from the opposite side, the ministry said.
"The shots were heard by the representatives who held the monitoring on the Azerbaijani side. They also confirmed that the shots were heard by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and his field assistants, who were on the opposite side. However, Kasprzyk supposed that these shots are heard from the firing range on Armenian side. Our soldiers who were near the village of Borsunlu also said the shots were heard not only from the firing range, but also from the opposite side toward the Azerbaijani armed forces. During the monitoring, fire was opened three times in our direction," the ministry said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December 1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7 districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. General Assembly's resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied territories.
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