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Armenian armed forces breached the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 99 times in various parts of the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies in the last 24 hours, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on October 27.

Armenian military used heavy machine guns and mortars to shell Azerbaijani troops’ positions.

Armenian armed forces located on the nameless heights of Armenia’s Ijevan district, opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces located on the nameless heights of Gazakh district.

Azerbaijani positions located in the village of Aghdam of Tovuz district underwent fire from the positions located in the village of Mosesgeh of Armenia’s Berd district.

Moreover, Azerbaijani positions located on the nameless heights of Gadabay district took fire from the positions located on the nameless heights of Armenia’s Krasnoselskiy district.

Another ceasefire violation came from the positions located near the villages of Talish, Gulustan of Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Yarimja, Chayli, Chileburt, Gizil Oba of Terter, Javahirli, Kengerli, Sarijali, Novruzlu, Shuraabad, Shikhlar, Garagashli, Merzili of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Horadiz, Gorgan, Garakhanbeyli, Ashagi Abdurrahmanli of Fizuli and Mehdili of Jabrayil district.

Also, Azerbaijani positions underwent fire from the positions located on the nameless heights of Goygol, Goranboy, Khojavend, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts.

Azerbaijani armed forces carried out 101 strikes on enemy positions.

Meanwhile, contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, running through the territory of Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, will be monitored by OSCE today.

The monitoring will be held under the mandate of personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office.

On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of the personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office, Yevgeny Sharov and Peter Svedberg.

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

During the monitoring, the OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Pierre Andrieu (France), James Warlick (the US) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk will cross the contact line on its part controlled by Azerbaijan’s armed forces.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

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 not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

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