TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Feb 21 2008

OSCE to Hold Next Monitoring on Armenian-Azerbaijani Contact Line
21.02.08 12:08

Azerbaijan, Baku, 21 February / Trend News corr. E.Heseyinli / There
are plans to hold monitoring on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line
near Garakhanbayli village of Fizuli region due to the mandate of the
OSCE private representative on 22 February, the Azerbaijani Defense
Ministry press-service reported to Trend News.

OSCE holds regular monitorings on the contact line after the
agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia was signed in 1994. Anjey
Kaspshik, personal representative of OSCE chairman, stated to
journalists that they were informed of the ceasefire agreement being
regularly violated.

The monitoring will be held from the Azerbaijani side by Piter Ki,
Imre Palatinus and Jaslan Nurtazin, field assistants of the personal
representative of OSCE chairman.

Antal Kherdic and Miroslav Vimetal, assistants of personal
representative of OSCE current chairman, will hold the monitoring
>From the Armenian side.

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
1988, due to the Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Since 1992, the Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of
Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven
neighbouring districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a
ceasefire agreement which ended the active hostilities. The Co-Chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently
holding the peaceful negotiations.