By Trend
The ceasefire monitoring exercise on the Azerbaijan and Armenia
state border, in the direction of Gazakh district, held in
accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairperson-in-Office on October 16, ended without incidents, the
Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan said in a message on Oct. 16.
The field assistants of the personal representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Gennady Petrika and Simon Tiller conducted the
monitoring on the part of Azerbaijan.
The field assistants of the personal representative Mikhail
Olaru and Ognjen Jovic conducted the monitoring on the part of
Armenia.
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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