OSCE to monitor contact line of Azerbaijani, Armenian troops
Under the mandate of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal
Representative, monitoring will be held on the contact line between
Azerbaijani and Armenian troops near the village of Merzili of the
Aghdam region of Azerbaijan on June 6, the Azerbaijani Defence
Ministry said on June 5.
According to the report the monitoring will be held on the
Azerbaijani side by the field assistant of personal representative
of the OSCE chairman-in-office Christo Christov.
On the opposite side the monitoring will be held by the field assistants of the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Irji Aberle and Yevgeni Sharov.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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