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OSCE monitoring on line of contact ends without incident

5 April 2017 17:05 (UTC+04:00)
OSCE monitoring on line of contact ends without incident

In accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the OSCE mission conducted a monitoring on the line of contact of troops located in Azerbaijan`s Garakhanbayli village in Fuzuli region on April 5.

Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry reported that the monitoring ended without an incident.

On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring was held by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Peter Svedberg, Simon Tiller and head of the High Level Planning Group, Colonel Hans Lampalzer.

On the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenian troops, the monitoring was carried out by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Mikhail Olaru, Ghenadie Petrica and representative of the HLPG Lt Col Patrick Farrelly.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims to Azerbaijan. 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 from the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, but they have not been enforced to this day.

While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign State with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.

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