The RF output from the Council of Europe would be damaging to the organization, And the Russian side, Moscow would not want to implement this scenario, said the speaker of the lower house of the Russian Parliament Sergey Naryshkin.
in January Naryshkin said that during 2015 RF freezes its work within the PACE And after a year, analyze the situation, And did not rule out that there will be a question And on membership in the Council of Europe.
"We do not wish to implement this plan. We believe, because it would be a decision that are harmful, like Russia, like this, in my opinion, an important organization as the Council of Europe, "Naryshkin said in the interview to the program" Vesti on the first day of the weekend with Sergei Brilev ", responding to a question.
in April 2014 because of the situation in Ukraine, the Russian delegation in PACE has deprived the right to vote, the right to participate in meetings of statutory bodies And monitoring activities of the Assembly. The delegation left the meeting room to restore power. In January of this year the PACE was considered possible restoration of the powers of the Russian delegation in the organization. The Assembly retained the action taken in January of the current year penalties on voting rights, rights to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies And participation in monitoring activities of the Assembly.
Naryshkin also said that the Russian side will resume their PACE only after the return of all her powers." And most important of them, And the principal of them is the right to vote. I will remind that the right to vote gives the parliamentary mandate, " said Naryshkin.
Finland this week did not want to give permission to enter under the punishments of the Russian deputies, including the speaker of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin, to participate in the summer session of the OSCE PA. In response to this step, the Delegation of the Russian Federation has decided in full force not to go to Helsinki. Yesterday the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that Moscow considers the refusal Helsinki to permit entry to Naryshkin as frankly unfriendly act.
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