OSCE TO MONITOR BORDER REGIONS
Trend News Agency
April 14 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 14 April / Trend News corr. E.Huseynli / On 15
April, OSCE will hold monitoring on the border line near Tapgaragoyunlu
village of Goranboy region of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Defence Ministry
reported TrendNews.
Personal representative of Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Peter Ki
and Antal Herdich, will hold monitoring from Azerbaijani side.
>From the Armenian side the monitoring will be held by Imre Palatinus,
Irji Aberli and Jaslan Nurtazin, the Field Assistant to Personal
Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
In 1994, Armenia and Azerbaijan reached ceasefire agreement and peace
negotiations are ongoing between the countries so far.
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 neighboring
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.