PACE explained the refusal of Ukraine of participation in the session and was told that Kiev was to send a delegation. As said Last news the head of one of the political groups of the PACE Tiny Kox, all member States are obliged to take part in the work of the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe, envisaged in resolution " On the role and mission of PACE, future challenges ", adopted by a majority of 3 quarters in April last year. Kiev also tried to convince the partners from the Council of Europe to hold an enlarged meeting on the question of the consequences of the unconditional return of Russia to the Assembly and to establish effective mechanisms of responsibility " of States violators of the Charter documents of the COE and norms of international law." explaining this part of the statement, coke said that is the development of joint response mechanism that has the ability to be used in case of gross violation of a member state of its obligations under the Charter and the European agreement on human rights. "at the forthcoming session of this new mechanism will be discussed with the heads of all national delegations. If Ukraine goes missing, she is missing the opportunity to participate in this negotiable. For this reason, it would be wise not to be in the side next part of the session, " said Cox. Source Last news in PACE confirmed that countries are obliged to participate in the work of all bodies of the Council of Europe, but acknowledged that procedures that would cause it to do that, no. before the first day of the week, the Ukrainian delegation issued a message in which officially did not want to participate in the work opening this week session due to the return of Russia. in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, a delegation from the capital of Russia was deprived of certain rights in the PACE. In response, Russia has suspended participation in meetings, and in 2017, announced the freezing of contributions to the budget of the Assembly. at the end of June, PACE has restored the rights of the Russian delegation in full. Kiev tried to prevent this. The Ukrainian delegation made hundreds of changes to the draft decision On the return of Russia's powers in the Assembly. Kiev, the foreign Ministry staff was also requested to defer consideration of the matter at a later date, but their initiative was not supported. <span style="color:darkgray