OSCE to hold monitoring on troops contact line

 In accordance with the mandate of special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the OSCE mission will hold a monitoring on troops contact line in the western direction of Ashagi Abdurrahmanli village of Fuzuli region on Wednesday.

According to Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry, the monitoring will be conducted by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office William Pryor, field assistant Hristo Hristov and Planning Group representative Andrei Barashkin.

From the opposite area the monitoring will be conducted by Field assistants of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jiri Aberle, Evgeniy Sharov and OSCE High-Level Planning Group representative, Major Vitali Belekon.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.


/AzerTAc/