Baku / 19.12.17 / Turan: Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov received the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. During the meeting, the current situation at the contact line of the troops, the results of the OSCE monitoring, and the exchange of views on ways to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were discussed, the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said. The mission of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk regular monitoring on the contact line for more than 20 years. Mission reports are closed to the public. -16d-
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