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By Sara Rajabova

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will hold monitoring on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on October 9.

The monitoring will be carried out under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative, on the contact line located near the village of Ashagi Veyselli of Azerbaijan's Fizuli region, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said.

On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be conducted by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative, Andrzej Kasprzyk and his field assistants Evgeny Sharov and Peter Svedberg.

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

Meanwhile, the ministry also reported that over the past 24 hours, Armenian armed forces, located in Aygepar village of Armenia's Berd region violated ceasefire with Azerbaijani forces, stationed in Alibayli village of the Tovuz district.

Azerbaijani positions were also shot at from the positions located on the nameless heights and near the villages Tapqaraqoyunlu of the Goranboy region and Kuropatkino of the Khojavend region.

The opposite side was silenced with return fire.

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 U.S., 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.