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Under the mandate of the OSCE chairman's personal representative, a monitoring will be held on October 17 on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the south of the village of Ashagi Seyidahmadli of Azerbaijan's Fizuli region, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend news agency.

The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and field assistant Evgeny Sharov.

On the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by the field assistants of the Personal Representative, Hristo Hristov, Jiri Aberle and Head of Financial Administration Peter Svedberg.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.