OSCE to monitor Azerbaijani, Armenian troops’ contact line

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported that the OSCE is expected to monitor the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops on February 7.

The monitoring will be held under the mandate of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative along the line of contact in the direction of Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district, said the ministry.

On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be held by Andrzej Kasprzyk, the personal representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office and his field assistants Gennady Petrica and Peter Svedberg.

On the Azerbaijani territories occupied and controlled by Armenian armed forces, the monitoring will be carried out by field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office personal representative Hristo Hristov, Jiri Aberle and Simon Tiller.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the 1990s war, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal, but they have not been enforced to this day.