The OSCE will monitor the Nagorno-Karabakh contact line near the village of Tapgaragoyunlu of Azerbaijan's Goranboy district on May 11, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.
On the Azerbaijani side, the monitoring will be carried out by field assistants of the OSCE chairperson-in-office's personal representative Hristo Hristov, Simon Tiller and the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, Günther Bachler.
On the opposite side, the monitoring will be conducted by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, his field assistant Peter Svedberg and the representative of the Chairperson-in-Office responsible directly for the activities of the Office of the Personal Representative, Thomas Lenk, APA reports.
Recall, on the night of April 2 all frontier positions of Azerbaijan were exposed to heavy fire from large-caliber weapons, mortars, grenade launchers and guns. In addition, Azerbaijani settlements near the front line, densely populated by civilians, were shelled.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20% of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US, are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
