Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 24 / Trend , K.Zarbaliyeva/ Monitoring will be held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near Fuzuli-Horadiz highway in Fuzuli region of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend . The monitoring will be held after a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman.
The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative field assistants Pieter Ki and Vladimir Chountulov.
The monitoring will be held on the opposite side, which the international community recognizes as Azerbaijani territory, by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative field assistants Imre Palatinus and Irji Aberle.
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.