The state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin believes that the Russian Federation cannot be isolated, even if it would raise a question about his membership in the Council of Europe, because There are other organizations with which cooperation will continue, for example, the Organization for security and cooperation in the European Union (OSCE).
in an interview to the newspaper "" Naryshkin said that the Russian Federation will raise the question about his membership in the Council of Europe, if for 2015 it will make it impossible to conduct an open dialogue in PACE. To the question, would it not lead to the isolation of Russia, he replied in the negative.
" The Russian Federation is impossible to isolate. There is a two-way relationship, There are other pan-European organizations. For example, the Organization for security and cooperation in the European Union (OSCE) and, accordingly, the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. We worked there and going to work for us the activities of the OSCE PA is more practical and is based on a real event analysis than PACE, " said Naryshkin.
according to him, the OSCE PA " nobody repairing barriers to dialogue." The speaker of the state Duma twice were there at the plenary meetings and believes that the work in this organization brings results.
" At least we got to spend our initiative to establish a working group on Ukraine. Yes, as long as its activity is blocked by some countries, which entered into its composition, for some reason did not want to take part in its work (USA, Poland and Ukraine). But it was important for us that our initiative was considered, and saw the sincere interest that bloody domestic crisis would be terminated, " explained Naryshkin.
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