Azernews.Az

A monitoring will be held on the contact line of Azerbaijani-Armenian troops.

The monitoring is planned to be held on April 2 on the contact line located to the north of the Fizuli-Horadiz road in the Fizuli district, under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

On the Azerbaijani side the monitoring will be held by the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and his field assistant Yevgeny Sharov.

On the opposite side the monitoring will be held by the field assistants of the personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office, Hristo Hristov, Jiri Aberle and Peter Svedberg.

The ministry further reported that Armenian armed forces opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces located in the Kohnegishlag village of Azerbaijan's Aghstafa district from the positions located in the Parakavar village of Armenia's Ijevan district last night.

Azerbaijani armed forces positions were also subjected to Armenians' fire from the positions near the Shuraabad and Bash Garvand villages of the Aghdam district and Chileburt village of Tartar district.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that had caused a lengthy war in the early 1990s.

The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the US and the OSCE Minsk Group are underway on the basis of a peaceful outline -called Madrid Principle -proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.