The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) without Russia loses his own pan-European character And becomes the second space in Europe after the OSCE parliamentary Assembly, head of the Russian delegation in PACE And the head of the international Department of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov.
PACE is the oldest in the EU body of inter-parliamentary cooperation, it was formed at the creation of the Council of Europe in 1949, Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996. The OSCE was created by the countries of Europe, North America And the Soviet Union in 1975, the parliamentary Assembly was founded in 1992. In April PACE because of the situation around Ukraine And Crimea deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights, rights of participation in their statutory bodies And opportunity to work in a group of election observers is for this reason that the delegation of the Russian Federation took a decision not to participate in the June session of PACE.
" PACE without Russia is the organization losing its own pan-European character, that is PACE without Russia, in principle, can only go to its decline, " said Pushkov reporters on Thursday.
" And second, where she will be able to go in - place after the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, " he said. The people's choice clarified that in the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Russia presents, no punishment to it there is not applied, And in the next few days Russia will take part in session of OSCE PA in Baku (Azerbaijan).
" The PACE itself have been discriminated against by applying punishment to Russia, followed the path of self-isolation from Russia, " said Pushkov.
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