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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that a monitoring conducted on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops passed without incidents.

The monitoring held on December 4 under the mandate of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative on the contact line located to the North from the Garakhanbeyli village of Fizuli region 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.

From the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Evgeny Sharov and Irji Aberle.

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.