PACE “recalls Resolutions 822 (1993), 853 (1993), 874 (1993) and 884 (1993) of the United Nations Security Council and urges the parties concerned to comply with them, in particular … by withdrawing military forces from any occupied territories”.
The draft of the resolution was prepared by the Political Affairs Committee of PACE, where the most concern appeared as “displacing of hundreds of thousands of people” from their lands and occupation of the “considerable parts of the territory of Azerbaijan by Armenian forces”.
1416, PACE instructed its Bureau to establish an ad hoc committee with the participation of, inter alia, the heads of delegations of the Minsk Group countries.
In April of that year, before formally launching committee activities, Costa stated that he intended to "establish cooperation with politicians, ambassadors and academic circles" in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
[11] Armenian officials also expressed their dissatisfaction with PACE's refusal to recognize the so-called Nagorno Karabakh Republic as an independent party during the negotiations, as well as in the activities of the committee.