The speaker of the state Duma will visit Paris to participate in the meeting of the PACE
The speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin will visit 1-2 September Paris on a working visit and participate in the meeting of the presidential Department of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Naryshkin was invited to the meeting of the presidential Department of the President of the Assembly Anne Brasseur. Scheduled a separate meeting Naryshkin, Brasseur. The presidential Committee includes the President and Secretary General of the Assembly, and the heads of political groups of the Assembly.
in April, the PACE has decided to deprive the Russian Federation the right to vote at the meeting of the Assembly, in response, the Russian delegation left the meeting PACE to the full restoration of all rights delegation. The range of capabilities of all delegations are updated every year, for this reason, and the deprivation of voting rights is effective only until the end of the current year. Naryshkin confirmed that the delegation will return to the plenary room PACE only when you have recovered all her rights.
Naryshkin hopes to reach an understanding with the members of the Assembly at the meeting in Paris.
He said that He and his colleagues from the Russian Parliament go to this meeting in the hope to achieve a better understanding, in order to look into the eyes of European colleagues of PACE and to see who will be the eyes to divert or close.
Naryshkin did not rule out that during his visit to France will hold a meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. In addition, planned meetings with representatives of business, community, political parties.
PACE is the oldest in the EU body of inter-parliamentary cooperation, was established at the creation of the Council of Europe in 1949, Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996. In April, the PACE because of the situation around Ukraine and Crimea has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights, rights to participate in the work of their statutory bodies and the ability to work in a group of election observers - for this reason, the delegation of the Russian Federation decided not to participate in the June session of PACE.