Kosachev: PACE restrained from using the resolution on Ukraine
The deprivation of the Russian delegation's voting rights is a very unfortunate decision, but not so much for the Russian Federation as to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which once again pulled away from real help for the solution of the conflict situation in Ukraine and protection of the rights of the people there said Last news the head of the international Department of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
on Wednesday, the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April punishment. The head of the delegation Alexei Pushkov said that the Russian Federation PACE leaves before the end of the year. According to his statement at the end of the year will be to address the question of Russian membership in the Council of Europe.
in addition, the PACE proved itself as a Commonwealth, the position of which determines the faceless overwhelming number, but not really versed in the policies that worked in the last period of time over the Russian dossier, heard the arguments of Russia, but in the end still not heard of this "gray" most ", said the MP.
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