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