Azerbaijan, Baku, May 15 / Trend, M.Aliyev/
Monitoring will be held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near the Kuropatkino village in the Azerbaijani Khojavend region on May 16, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend on Tuesday.
The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk, his office coordinator Peter Keay, field assistant Antal Herdich and OSCE High-Level Planning Group representative, Colonel Andrei Barashkin.
The monitoring will be held on the opposite side, which the international community recognizes as Azerbaijani territory, by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk's field assistants Christo Christov, Jiri Aberle, personal assistant William Pryor and OSCE High-Level Planning Group representative, Major Vitali Belekon.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.