OSCE MONITORING IN AZERBAIJANI-ARMENIAN CONTACT LINE PASSES WITHOUT INCIDENT

Trend
Aug 4 2009
Azerbaijan

No incident took place at the monitoring, held on contact line between
the Azerbaijani and Armenian Armed Forces, near the Borsunlu village
of the Azerbaijani Goranboy region on Aug.4 , upon mandate of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend News.

Chairman-in-Office Anji Kaspershik and his field assistant Irji Aber
held the monitoring from Azerbaijan.

Field assistants of OSCE Chairman-in-office Imre Palatinus and
Vladimir Chountulov held the monitoring from opposite side of the
contact line of troops recognized as Azerbaijani territory at the
international level.

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.