OSCE to monitor contact line of Azerbaijani, Armenian troops
The OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on the contact line of troops in the village of Tatlı, Agstafa region on August 17 in accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Azertac reported.
Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry reported that the monitoring will be held by the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Hristo Hristov and Simon Tiller on the Azerbaijani side.
On the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jiri Aberle and Peter Svedberg.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.
Two decades of talks mediated by the OSCE MG group have failed to produce a breakthrough, and the renewed hostilities, the worst since the ceasefire deal signed in 1994, were assessed as the result of inactivity of the international community.
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