Baku, Azerbaijan, July 18
Trend:
The OSCE is expected to monitor the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops on July 19, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said July 18.
The monitoring will be held under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative along the line of contact on the Omar mountain pass of Azerbaijan’s Goygol district, said the ministry.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be held by Mikhail Olaru and Martin Schuster, who are field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative.
On the Azerbaijani territories occupied and controlled by Armenian armed forces, the monitoring will be held by Andrzej Kasprzyk, ambassador and the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative, Simon Tiller and Ognjen Jovic, who are field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative.
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.