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The OSCE mission conducted a monitoring on troops contact line in the south-east of Gapanli village of Azerbaijan`s Tartar region on May 6 in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

The monitoring ended without an incident.

Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry reported the monitoring was held, on the Azerbaijani side, by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Jiri Aberle and Peter Swedberg.

From the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Hristo Hristov and Eugene Sharov.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

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 U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.