Azernews.Az

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that a monitoring conducted by an OSCE mission on troops contact line in Bala Jafarli village of Azerbaijan`s Kazakh region in accordance with the mandate of special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office has seen no incident.

The monitoring was held on the Azerbaijani side by field assistants of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative William Pryor and Jiri Aberle.

On the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and field assistants Hristo Hristov and Evgeny Sharov.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict emerging from Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. 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.