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The OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on troops contact line in the south of the Aghdam village of Azerbaijan's Tovuz region on Aug.1 in accordance with the mandate of special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on July 31.

The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative William Pryor and field assistant Jiri Aberle.

From the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Hristo Hristov and Evgeny Sharov ,and Head of Financial Administration Peter Svedberg.

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 the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.