Azerbaijan, Baku, May 12 / Trend /
The OSCE will monitor the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
According to the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops near the village of Ashagi Buzgov in Babek region of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan will be monitored June 16, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.
The monitoring will be conducted by coordinator of the office of personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Imre Palatinus and Field Assistant Zhaslan Nurtazin from the Azerbaijani side.
The monitoring will be conducted by field assistants to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Antal Herdich and William Pryor from the opposite side of the line of contact.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 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 the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied territories.