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Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry announced on February 3 that the OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on the contact line of troops near Ashagi Veysalli village of Azerbaijan`s Fuzuli region on February 4. The monitoring will be held in accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Peter Svedberg, Jiri Aberle, Simon Tiller and representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, Colonel Tuncay Sevim.

On the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, his field assistants Yevgeny Sharov, Hristo Hristov and representative of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Nepokritikh.

The situation on the contact line between Azerbaijan and Armenia has remained tense as the Armenian armed forces shattered ceasefire a total of 121 times over the past 24 hours, the Ministry reported in its morning statement.

Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions of Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. This war killer more than 20,000 Azerbaijanis and nearly 1 million were displaced.

The sides to the conflict currently hold talks based on the renewed Madrid principles, which envisage return of occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control, ensure the right of all internally displaced persons and refugees to return to their former places of residence, future determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh, etc.

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