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According to the mandate of special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, monitoring on Azerbaijani and Armenian troops' contact line located between Bash Gervend and Ahmadagali villages of Azerbaijani Agdam region will be held on November 21, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative's field assistants Jiri Aberle and Peter Svedberg.

On the opposite side, monitoring will be conducted by field assistants Hristo Hristov, Evgeny Sharov and William Pryor.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over 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.