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    FRENCH COCHAIRMAN CLARIFIES CONTACT LINE SITUATION

    Trend
    Nov 29 2011
    Azerbaijan

    The OSCE Minsk Group's French cochairman clarified the situation
    regarding the situation on the contact line of the Armenian and
    Azerbaijani troops.

    "This time we crossed the contact line of the troops in not Karabakh
    but Gazakh," Bernard Fassier reported. "Luckily, tension here is
    lesser than in Karabakh," he added.

    On Tuesday, after the monitoring was over, the OSCE Minsk Group
    cochairmen met head of the executive power of Gazakh region Ayaz
    Askarov.

    Later on, the cochairmen flew to Baku on a helicopter.

    On Tuesday, the OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen held monitoring on the
    contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.

    Monitoring held on the road between the Jafarli village in
    the Azerbaijani Gazakh region and Armenian Kayan village on the
    contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on Nov.29
    proceeded without incident and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs moved to
    the Azerbaijani side, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend on
    Tuesday. The monitoring was held under a mandate of the OSCE chairman.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
    are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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