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The situation on the contact line between Azerbaijan and Armenia has remained tense as the Armenian Armed Forces shattered ceasefire a total of 130 times throughout the day, Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry reported on February 17.

Azerbaijani positions located on the nameless heights of the Qazakh district an in the Kohnegishlag village of the Aghstafa district underwent fire from the villages of Berkaber and Paravakar of Armenia’s Ijevan district, Voskepar and Voskevan of Armenia’s Noyemberyan district.

Azerbaijani positions located in the Alibayli village of the Tovuz district and positions located on the nameless heights of the Gadabay district underwent fire from the positions located on the nameless heights of Armenia’s Krasnoselsk district.

Azerbaijani positions also underwent fire from the positions located near the villages of Talish, Gulustan of the Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Chilaburt, Chayli, Yarimja of the Terter district, Shikhlar, Bash Gervend, Novruzlu, Javahirli, Kangarli, Sarijali, Shuraabad, Yusifjanli, Nemirli of the Aghdam district, Kuropatkino of the Khojavand district, Horadiz, Garakhanbeyli, Gorgan, Ashagi Seyidahmadli of the Fizuli district, Mehdili of the Jabrayil district.

In view of the operational situation, Azerbaijani armed forces carried out 131 strikes on enemy positions.

The ministry also reported that the OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on the contact line of troops of Azerbaijan`s Tartar region on February 18, 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 Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and his field assistant Jiri Aberle.

On the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Yevgeny Sharov, Hristo Hristov and Peter Svedberg.

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.

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