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The monitoring held on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops passed without incidents.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that the monitoring held on November 21 under the mandate of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative on the contact line between the villages of Bash Garvand and Ahmadaghali of Azerbaijan's Aghdam district passed without incidents.

On the Azerbaijani side the monitoring was held by the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Irji Aberle and Peter Svedberg.

On the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Hristo Hristov, Evgeny Sharov and William Pryor.

A precarious ceasefire, reached after a lengthy war that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis, has been in place between the two South Caucasus countries since 1994. Since the hostilities, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Peace talks are brokered by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs representing the United States, Russia and France. The negotiations are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles, also known as Basic Principles. The document envisions a return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control; determining the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh; a corridor linking Armenia to the region; and the right of all internally displaced persons to return home.