By Trend
The ceasefire monitoring on the contact line between the
Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, in the direction of Azerbaijan’s
Aghdam district, held in accordance with the mandate of personal
representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office on March 12, ended
without incidents, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend.
The personal representative's field assistants Simon Tiller and
Martin Schuster carried out the monitoring on the territory of
Azerbaijan.
The personal representative's field assistants Mihail Olaru and
Ghenadie Petrica carried out the monitoring on the territory of the
Republic of Azerbaijan occupied and controlled by the armed forces
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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