OSCE ENVOYS GET INFORMATION ON VIOLATION OF CEASEFIRE REGIME BY ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 13 2007
Azerbaijan, Barda / corr. Trend Sh.Jaliloglu / On the 13th of June
the field assistants of the OSCE Chairman in Office’s special
representative Andzey Kasprzyk monitored the line of contact of
Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in Azerbaijan’s Fizuli district.
Thus, the participants of the monitoring met with the Head of Fizuli
Executive Power, Naby Mukhtarov was interested in the reasons behind
the violation of the ceasefire regime by the Armenian Armed Forces.
Mukhtarov stated that the Armenian Armed Forces periodically fired
upon villages and upon the Azerbaijan National Army. Due to this,
there has been an affect on the production of agriculture.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries appeared in 1988
due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenia has
occupied 20% of the Azerbaijani lands including the Nagorno-Karabakh
region and its seven surrounding districts. Since 1992 to present
time, these territories have been under Armenian occupation. In 1994,
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a cease-fire agreement at which the
active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
(Russia, France and USA) are holding peaceful negotiations.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
