Russia continues its cooperation with the OSCE, despite the General crisis of confidence in the European Union, confirmed on the last working day of the week the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.
on Wednesday, the PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April penalties because of the situation in Ukraine. The head of the delegation Alexei Pushkov said that the Russian Federation PACE leaves before the end of the year. According to him, at the end of the year will be to address the question of Russian membership in the Council of Europe. When it is Authorized Russia has said it will continue to work in the OSCE parliamentary Assembly, where the institution of punishment is not specified.
"Someone said that we isolate, but we have many other, more effective opportunities to dialogue with our European partners in different formats And, most importantly, in the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security And cooperation in the European Union," said Naryshkin in broadcast television channel ".
according to him, between the Russian side And the OSCE dialogue." He, too, is difficult given the General decline of trust in the EU, but hear us, we put forward proposals, " said the speaker of the state Duma.
Naryshkin added that played on the last 2 plenary meetings of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly." Received our offer, our initiative to establish a working group on relations with Ukraine. The group was formed, but, unfortunately, as long as the activities of this working group is blocked, most importantly by the delegations of the three countries - the USA, Poland And Ukraine ", - said the head of the state Duma.
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