Depriving the Russian Federation the right to vote, the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has isolated herself from the discussion of important topics Ukrainian fall, said on Wednesday the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

"With regard to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, then she herself isolated in obgovarivaya this important for Europe, for European security in General for the whole world security topics, Depriving the Russian delegation's main rights, voting rights," said Naryshkin in an interview to television channel " Russia 24 ".

The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April penalties because of the situation in Ukraine. Head of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov first stated That the Russian Federation leaves the Assembly before the end of the year.


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


The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the oldest in the European Union international parliamentary institution has been in operation since 1949. This is one of the 2 main statutory bodies of the Council of Europe, it is the desire of the main political parties existing in the member States of the organization. The Assembly shall deal with matters concerning modern society and various aspects of international politics. In Assembly with the right to vote includes delegations from 47 countries. Observer status have Israel, Canada, Mexico.

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