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    OSCE MONITORS TROOPS CONTACT LINE

    Trend News Agency
    June 2 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 June /Trend News corr G. Jabiyev/ According to the
    mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office,
    on 3 June a monitoring will be held at the troops contact line nearby
    Mazamli village in Gazakh region of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani
    Defence Ministry reported to Trend News.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
    lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
    Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan
    and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active
    hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia,
    France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful, but fruitless
    negotiations.

    For the preservation of ceasefire, OSCE regularly monitors the troops
    contact line.

    On the Azerbaijan side, the monitoring will be held by assistants of
    the OSCE Chairman-in-office's personal representative Antal Herdich
    and Irji Aberle.

    On the opposite side of the line, which is recognized at international
    level as Azerbaijan's territory, the monitoring will be held by
    Imre Palatinus and Vladimir Chontulov, assistants of the OSCE
    Chairman-in-office's personal representative.
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