The Ministry’s announcement reads: “Overnight July 13-14 relative calm was maintained in Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact”. It noted that the monitoring is conducted on both sides by field assistants to the personal representative of the current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and members of the High Level Planning Group.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. 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 Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.
During the May 16 meeting in Vienna, Austria, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to work out safeguards against ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh and resume their search for a compromise peace deal to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, the U.S. and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.
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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.
