OSCE to hold monitoring on troops contact line
Baku, May 15 (AZERTAC). In accordance with the mandate of special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on troops contact line near Kuropatkino village of Azerbaijan’s Khojavand region on Wednesday.
According to Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry, the monitoring will be conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andzheu Kaspshik, field assistant Antal Herdich and representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, Colonel Andrei Barashkin.
From the opposite area the monitoring will be conducted by Field assistants of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Hristo Hristov, Jiri Aberle, personal assistant William Pryor and representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, Colonel 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.
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