Pushkov: the Russian Federation will act conviction under the threat of restrictions in PACE
The Russian delegation in PACE will Express their disagreement, if the range of possibilities will try to challenge at the winter session of the Assembly on the First day of the week, and will convince the deputies in the wrongness of this action, said Last news the head of the international Department of the state Duma, representing the Russian Federation in the Assembly.
in April 2014 because of the situation in Ukraine, the Russian delegation in PACE was deprived of the right to vote, the right to participate in the meetings of the statutory bodies and in monitoring the activities of the Assembly. The delegation left the meeting room to restore power. According to the rules of the Assembly for the winter session of the range of capabilities of all delegations updated. In the beginning of the session discussed the likelihood of a return to the limits of Russian power.
"The Russian delegation will Express their attitude, their disagreement with this proposal and will convince the deputies PACE that this measure is not correct, we will explain why this is not correct, we will say that the preservation of sanctions against Russia threatens cooperation between PACE and Russia, so that Russia may leave the organization before the end of the year," Pushkov said on the question, what will be the actions of the Russian delegation in the case of initiatives to challenge its range of capabilities in the Assembly.
"We will conduct outreach to political work with all the people's elected representatives, explaining to them why they can't, in our opinion, why it would be wrong to Express support for this proposal," he added.
on the eve of last week, the press has reported messages about what to PACE as if discussing the Dutch initiative on the extension of sanctions on the Russian delegation to the end of 2015. Later in PACE told Last news that no such proposals do not have.
1st Deputy head of the international Department of the Council of Federation Vitaly Ignatenko told Last news that on the 1st day of session, the range of capabilities of the Russian delegation have the opportunity to be challenged with More than 30 parliamentarians from five different countries. Arrived in Strasbourg, the state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin again noticed that the Russian Federation to suspend its membership in PACE, if the range of capabilities of the delegation will not be confirmed.