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BAKU: OSCE to monitor contact line b/w Azerbaijani, Armenian armies

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 29 2009

OSCE to monitor contact line between Azerbaijani, Armenian armies
29.03.09 15:51

Azerbaijan, Barda, March 29 /Trend News, K. Zarbaliyeva/ Monitoring
will be held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani
armed forces near Mazam village of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh region on March
31. The monitoring will be held under a mandate of the OSCE chairman
special envoy.

The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative field assistants Pieter Ki
and Irji Aberli.

The monitoring will be held on the opposite side, which the
international community recognizes as Azerbaijani territory, by OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Anjey Kasprshik’s field
assistants Imre Palatinus, Vladimir Chountulov and Jaslan Nurtazin.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December
1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed
a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia,
France, and the U.S. – are currently holding the peace negotiations.

The OSCE regularly holds monitoring on troop’s contact line to secure
ceasefire.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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