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“PACE and other intl orgs should consult with the @OSCE Co-chairs before issuing reports or resolutions on Nagorno-#Karabakh,” the U.S. Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick wrote on Twitter regarding the adoption of a scandalous report controversially called “Escalation of violence in Nagorno Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” by the PACE Political Affairs and Democracy Committee on November 4. The report was prepared by British MP Robert Walter.

On October 1, 2014 the PACE Political Affairs and Democracy Committee instructed MP Robert Walter known for his pro-Azerbaijani stance to prepare a report on Nagorno Karabakh. The report’s very name “Escalation of violence in Nagorno Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” provoked a scandal and attracted harsh criticism. In an earlier interview with Panorama.am, the spokesman for the president of Karabakh David Babayan voiced once again the position of Karabakh authorities on the report being written by R. Walter:

“The report has to be impartial and objective, and not represent a study done by order”. “Any documents smelling of caviar and oil are unacceptable to us,” he stressed. Panorama. am learned on November 4 from Naira Karapetyan, Armenian delegation member in the Political Affairs and Democracy Committee of PACE that the approved report will be submitted for discussion at the winter session of PACE in 2016.