PACE Rapporteur nourishes the hope for progress in relations with Moscow
Christina Luna Rodriguez. Rapporteur on the powers of the Russian delegation in PACE at the upcoming June session of the Austrian Stefan Shan opposes boycott of relations with the Assembly and nourishes the hope for progress in them.
at the end of January this year, the PACE adopted a resolution in which they denied until April the delegation of the Russian Federation of a number of important powers, and voting rights, because of the situation in Ukraine. In response to this, the delegation of Russia until the end of 2015 left the Assembly.
at the meeting of the PACE Bureau - authorized body of the organization, adopted a conclusion on postponing the discussion of this issue at the June session. As recalled Last news employee of the office of the Assembly, " in the text adopted in January of the decision notes That the PACE decides to revert to this issue in order nor reassert the right to vote and the right to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies at the April session of 2015, if Russia will demonstrate significant and meaningful progress in implementation of the requirements of PACE ". Profile monitoring Committee felt That since January of this year the Russian side was not done, because it encouraged the Bureau to defer consideration for a summer session.
explaining in an interview Last news the situation, the Creator of the previous January of the decision, Stefan Shan confirmed as Rapporteur for discussion at the summer session.
"we have two provisions: the January session and the decision taken by the master (head of the international Department of the state Duma Alexei) Pushkov. Currently the situation is unbalanced: Mr. Pushkov said That the delegation will boycott until the end of the current year work with the Assembly. What we can do? Nothing, " he said.
Austrian MP believes That " both parties should use the time to re-start the relationship in January (following year)