OSCE monitoring on contact line ends without incidents
The latest monitoring on the contact line of the Azerbaijani and Armenian armies has passed without incidents.
The monitoring was held under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative on the contact line located near the village of Zeyve of Azerbaijan's Goranboy district on April 27, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring was carried out by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk, his field assistants Yevgeny Sharov and Simon Tiller.
On the opposite side, the monitoring was conducted by the field assistants of OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative, Jiri Aberle and Peter Svedberg.
Back in 1992, following a violent and bloody conflict, Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts plunging the South Caucasus region into a protracted conflict.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has yet to comply with UN Security Council resolutions calling for the liberation of all occupied territories.
Drawn into a conflict it did not initiate, Azerbaijan has warned it would not stand idly while its people's lives are put in harm's way by Armenian soldiers.
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