No incident during OSCE contact line monitoring
By Trend
The OSCE monitoring held along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops on April 18 passed without incidents, said Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry.
The monitoring was held under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative in Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring was held by Simon Tiller and Gennady Petrica, field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative.
On the Azerbaijani territories, occupied and controlled by Armenian armed forces, the monitoring was held by Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office, and field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Mikhail Olaru and Ognyen Yovic.
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.
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