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The Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have issued a statement ahead of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The statement on the OSCE website says: 

“The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France – welcome efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and are prepared to work cooperatively with those committed to a peaceful settlement. 

We understand that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) may consider resolutions on the conflict in the near future and remind PACE, and other regional and international organizations, that the Minsk Group remains the only accepted format for negotiations.  We appreciate the interest paid by PACE members, but urge that steps not be taken which could undermine the Minsk Group’s mandate from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe or complicate ongoing negotiations”.

As was reported, two anti-Armenian draft resolutions  - the report “Escalation of violence in Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan,” and the report “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” – will be put to vote in PACE on January 26.