Russia lacks authority to participate in the governing bodies, announced the head of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky. According to him, in consequence, to the Bureau no followers Russia.
on January 26 PACE winter session opens. But it is taking place without the participation of the Russian side. "We are deprived of the authority to participate in the governing bodies, in consequence, at the meeting of our not," said Slutsky, who arrived in the delegation.
Relations between Russia and the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have cooled in April 2014 after the adoption of the PACE of the decision to deprive the Russian delegation's voting rights, rights to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies and participation in monitoring activities of the Assembly in consequence of Moscow's position on the Crimea. Russian delegation left the meeting room before regeneration powers.
By all the rules of the Assembly, at its winter session, the credentials of all delegations updated. Previously, state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin stressed that Russia will temporarily stop their membership in PACE, if the credentials of the delegation will not be approved.
Also, the head of the international Committee of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov has announced that the Russian delegation will Express their opposition to the actions of the organization. Russian delegation will assure deputies PACE that this measure is not correct, we will explain the reasons why it is not classified correctly, we say that the preservation of sanctions against Russia threatens collaboration between PACE and the Russian Federation, that Russia may leave the company before the end of the year, " said Pushkov. - We will conduct outreach to political work with all the deputies, he explained to them why they can't, from our point of view, why it would be wrong to support this proposal".
As informs RIA Novosti, a few days before the session of PACE have any news about that though discussies Dutch initiative on the extension of sanctions against the Russian delegation to the end of 2015. Later in PACE announced that almost no similar initiatives in the organization there.
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