Baku, Azerbaijan, July 20
Trend:
OSCE is expected to monitor the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops July 21, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said July 20.
It is planned to hold the monitoring under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative on the contact line to the west of the Azerbaijani Terter town, the ministry said.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be held by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Jiri Aberle and Peter Svedverg.
On the opposite side, the monitoring will be carried out by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Hristo Hristov and Simon Tiller.
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.