OSCE to monitor contact line between Azerbaijani, Armenian military posts
Following the mandate of Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the OSCE mission will conduct monitoring on Azerbaijani and Armenian troops` contact-line to the north of Bash Garvand village in Agdam region, on May 19, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.
Monitoring will be reportedly held by Field Assistants of Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Hristo Hristov and head of the High-Level Planning Group (HLPG), Colonel Hans Lampalzer from Azerbaijan side.
From the opposite area, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan`s territory, the monitoring will be conducted by Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Svedverg, Simon Tiller and representative of the HLPG, Colonel Andrey Barashkin.
Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the 1990s war, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal, but they have not been enforced to this day.
A precarious cease-fire was signed in 1994. However, the Armenian forces commit armistice breaches on the frontline almost every day.
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