Christina Moon Rodriguez. The head of the Council of PACE for migration and immigrants Thierry Mariani called stupid and dangerous situation of the Russian delegation to the Assembly at the current session.
on Wednesday, the PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights, the right to be represented in statutory bodies and the right to participate in the monitoring mission. The head of the delegation Alexei Pushkov said that the Russian Federation PACE leaves before the end of the year. According to him, at the end of the year will be considered for membership of the Russian Federation in the Council of Europe.
"I think this situation is literally stupid and dangerous," said Mariani Last news ." Yesterday I got the opinion that certain delegates were his own with Russia instead to seek solutions to the situation in Ukraine, " he said.
"The situation in Ukraine dramatic, thousands killed, nearly a million immigrants, it is impossible so to continue, we must find ways out of the situation, and this path is the path of dialogue," added the French Parliamentarian." PACE is the only Assembly, where it was always possible to say, " he recalled.
"valaisiana yesterday counterproductive, now we are on most of the months are not able to meet with the deputies, as we previously did," said Mariani. The MP said that " not a day had passed after the vote, and we are already faced with stupidity."
In response to a request to comment on the words of the head of the PACE Anne Brasseur about the fact that in April the PACE will check what the requirements of the decision of the Russian Federation performed, Mariani showed that there was no large country, as students who do not pass the exam ".
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 Assembly due to the position of the capital of Russia in the Crimea. The Russian delegation left the meeting room to restore power. Read more about deprive Russia of the right to vote in PACE
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