Based on the PACE Rapporteur David Atkinson's report over Nagorno Karabakh and in compliance with the PACE Resolution adopted this January, the Assembly Bureau formed a Temporary Committee for Nagorno Karabakh April 25. According to item 5, the PACE urges OSCE Minsk Group member states to activate efforts to provide for peaceful settlement of the conflict thus urging the governments of those countries to annually inform the Assembly on the work carried out. Simultaneously the Assembly asked the Bureau to form a Temporary Committee composed of the heads of the delegations of the PACE member states. British Deputy, former PACE President Lord Russel-Johnston is elected to chair the Committee.