Naryshkin: Russia will not accept the PACE mission
PACE in the near future will not be able to send in the Russian Federation, its commissioners, said the head of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin. " It's impossible. Because we are a year stopped working (PACE - approx. OPINION), "Naryshkin said in an interview to television channel "Russia 24" on the last working day of the week, answering the question on the desire of the Assembly to send in the Russian Federation mission to study the situation with the Ukrainian refugees, according to news Agency ". Before this Naryshkin said that the deprivation of the Russian delegation's voting rights in PACE is absurd, It does not comply with the Statute of the Council of Europe. Remember, on Wednesday, the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted the amendment to the decision on the credentials of the Russian delegation, depriving the Russian Federation the right to vote until April. In response, the Russian delegation left the PACE until the end of the year. The head of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin confirmed that the Russian Federation for the year suspended work at the PACE in any official forms, noting that next year will rise again the question of membership in the Council of Europe. The head of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Anne Brasher said, under what conditions may be the return rights of the Russian delegation in PACE. In the Council of Federation of the incident called " tactics of anti-Russian forces in PACE ".