RIA Novosti, Russia
March 10 2006
OSCE monitors ceasefire in Nagorny Karabakh
14:42 | 10/ 03/ 2006
YEREVAN, March 10 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) – Officials from
Europe’s largest security organization Friday conducted scheduled
ceasefire monitoring on a stretch of the border between the breakaway
region of Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijan.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) registered no violations of the ceasefire regime.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been exchanging allegations of numerous
ceasefire violations on the border near the Nagorny-Karabakh conflict
zone for the past two weeks.
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh, a
region in Azerbaijan with a largely ethnic Armenian population, first
erupted in 1988, when the region claimed independence from Azerbaijan
to join Armenia.
Over 30,000 people were reported dead on both sides between 1988 and
1994, and over 100 others died after a ceasefire was concluded in
1994, leaving Nagorny Karabakh in Armenian hands, but tensions
between Azerbaijan and Armenia have persisted.